OpenOffice KDE Integration

[sblass]

Just checking to see if others are having the same experience.

I love the idea of the OpenOffice KDE integration, but - at least as everything appears on my system - it is too flawed for me at the moment. The OpenOffice. org site states 'The goal is to provide tight (but optional) integration of the OpenOffice.org to the KDE environment...', but I cannot find a mechanism to turn off the integration.

I find...
Buttons/Descriptions missing in open/save dialogs
Unable to specify a filter (e.g. for opening CSV, or other delimited types) for proper opening with Calc

There are probably more issues that don't come to mind at the moment, but the bottom line is using OO in its integrated form is too painful for me. I just downloaded the 3.1.1 DEB file from OpenOffice.org, and unless someone can convince me otherwise, I'm deinstalling the existing installation and reinstalling from the DEB.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: OpenOffice KDE Integration

Problems confirmed.
In addition, OOo would crash any time I tried to install or update extensions.
Removing the kde-integration package fixed the problems. No need to do a separate install.
Looks ugly, but it works fine.

Edit: I believe the exact name of the package ispenoffice.org-kde

[sblass]

Re: OpenOffice KDE Integration

Removing the kde-integration package fixed the problems. No need to do a separate install.
Looks ugly, but it works fine.

Edit: I believe the exact name of the package ispenoffice.org-kde

Thank you, sir. I was hoping there was some mechanism to avoid deinstallation and then reinstalling from the DEB.

[doctordruidphd]

Re: OpenOffice KDE Integration

You don't need to reinstall anything, and you don't need to remove the existing OOo.
Just remove the kde integration package.

sudo apt-get remove openoffice.org-kde