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I just updated LO 3.3.0 with 3.3.1 on my W2K machine which went very well. I
picked up all the settings and extensions as it should. One very strange
thing, though it changed all the icons for OOo 3.3.0 to the new LO icons.
Could that be because they all have the same executable file names even
though they are in different directories? Seems strange to me.
Hi 
Probably although i thought the pathnames were slightly different. However, if
you set LibreOffice to be the default for opening office files (the default is
tick in the tick-box on the final screen of the installer) then OpenOffice will
probably search for various things first in the LibreOffice folders and only
look into the OpenOffice folders if it doesn't find anything. I think you can
open OpenOffice and persuade it to be the default app again. It is odd tho as
you are the first person to notice and report the problem. I would have
expected people to mention this a few weeks ago.
Just out of curiosity and on a different subject what is the machine's cpu speed
and ram-size? Do you have about 15Gb free space on your hard-drive? have you
considered using a linux distro so that the machine runs faster again? If not
then i might be able to help you run a free trial version of a few without
affecting your Windows at all. Please let me know if you are interested.
Regards from
Tom
This might be a "thread hijack" (sorry), but I've not been able to
set LO to be my default for opening... Anything at all. Windows (XP
Home) doesn't offer it to me at all, only OO. Yes, I do have both
still installed, but...
Mark Stanton
For reasons related to the second part of this, I noticed this too. I
thought it was both odd and annoying because...
(Part 2)
I really detest the new LO icon scheme. The program icons (for
launchers, etc) are flat and boring, although at least they are now in
different colors, which is not quite as boring as the graphics
themselves. What I find more annoying is that the icons for the
buttons inside Writer, Calc and so on are not only flatter and more
boring than their predecessors, they are LARGER, which not only cuts
down on the amount of screen left over for the document(s)
itself(themselves), it also reduces the number of buttons that can
appear on each toolbar line, thus completely obscuring many features
that are on the right ends of those toolbars, some to the point of not
working right at all.
For example, the font color control button is now off the right end of
the main toolbar, and that prevents its down-arrow function (open the
color palette to select the deisred color) from operating at all - it
only sets the selected text to the current default color, which is,
essentially, useless.
Can we please have the nice, smaller icons that were in OOo 3.2.1 (or
something like them and smaller than the current icons) back?
(So how did I notice that the OOo icons had been supplanted by the LO
icons? I opened an OOo window to see the old icons that I liked
before, but they were gone....)
Two possible solutions (in Windows Explorer):
1) Right-click on a file of the type you want to move from default OO
to LO, select "Open With" and "Choose Program..." then select LO and
be sure to check the box "Always use this program...."
2) Click "Tools" and "Folder options...", then click on the "File
Types" tab, find your way to the file type(s) you want to change and
set all of them there.
There's also a way to do this from the Control Panel, but I forget that one.
Hi MR ZenWiz,
Two possible solutions (in Windows Explorer):
1) Right-click on a file of the type you want to move from default OO
to LO, select "Open With" and "Choose Program..." then select LO and
be sure to check the box "Always use this program...."
That's what I mean. When I do this I *don't* get offered LO, only OO.
2) Click "Tools" and "Folder options...", then click on the "File
Types" tab, find your way to the file type(s) you want to change and
set all of them there.
I assume this would give me the same issue.
I s'pose I ought to be able to look for the LO executable. However, with the
installation of LO3.3.1 the has now gone away
Regards
Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...
The installation instructions for OOo4Kids say that you can have OOo4Kids and OOo on the same machine, but only one program will get the "file associations" that enable you to double-click on a document to open Writer, Calc, or whatever. Presumably we can go whole hog and install OOo4Kids, OOoLite, OOo, LibO, BrOffice, etc., on one machine, but only one of these automatically gets the file associations. Each suite steals all the associations (except for MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint if you reserved those). Therefore the last one installed rules the roost.
When you think about it, this is the Right Way for it to work.
ZenWiz's method works, but there are dozens of file types involved, and you may have to do it over again after an update or upgrade. It is simpler, and perhaps faster, to re-install the one you want to have the file associations.
Have fun!
Hi
Yes, ZenWiz's description is much more accurate than mine for Windows. Usually
the "dozens of different file types" is really mainly only 3 or so for most
users. Installers usually end with a tick-box option to grab all possible
file-types so that's the easiest way to get them all (including the rare ones).
Regards from
Tom
Hi
You get a small list with a separator near the bottom with the last option being
something like "more options" or "other programs" or something and that should
give a much longer list. Is LibreOffice or Writer not in there?
Regards from
Tom
Hi MR ZenWiz,
Two possible solutions (in Windows Explorer):
1) Right-click on a file of the type you want to move from default OO
to LO, select "Open With" and "Choose Program..." then select LO and
be sure to check the box "Always use this program...."That's what I mean. When I do this I *don't* get offered LO, only OO.
There's also an option to Browse for your own choice of program. You
can use this to poke around anywhere on your computer to find the LO
launcher. It helps to look at everything in the windows that open (I
know, I miss them all the time and have to look twice, too).
2) Click "Tools" and "Folder options...", then click on the "File
Types" tab, find your way to the file type(s) you want to change and
set all of them there.I assume this would give me the same issue.
No, you have to do a little more work this way on the first such
entity (because you actually have to type in the command), but then if
you copy taht to the clipboard, you can paste it in subsequent file
types.
I s'pose I ought to be able to look for the LO executable. However, with the
installation of LO3.3.1 the has now gone away
I have no idea what that means - if it's installed, the executable is
out there somewhere. Any menu that contains a link to launch the
installed programs can be open with right-click->Properties, and you
can see what's inside that makes it tick. At the very least, the All
Programs menu will have it (if not, you don't have it installed...).
There's also an option to Browse for your own choice of program.
Yes,that's what my answer in the last paragraph was referring to.
I have no idea what that means - if it's installed, the executable is
out there somewhere.
Since I've installed 3.3.1 .doc files are already set to be handled by LO (not
OO). In fact, looking at another type of file that could be handled by LO, for
example .txt, LO *is* now in the list of possibly programs as well as OO, so I
think the issue has been fixed.
Many thanks
Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...
You get a small list with a separator near the bottom with the last option being
something like "more options" or "other programs" or something and that should
give a much longer list. Is LibreOffice or Writer not in there?
No.
Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...
** Reply to message from Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> on Sun, 27 Feb
2011 00:32:42 +0000 (GMT)
You get a small list with a separator near the bottom with the last option being
something like "more options" or "other programs" or something and that should
give a much longer list. Is LibreOffice or Writer not in there?
Regards from
Tom
The problem was that both OOo and LO listed Writer, Calc, etc in their
respective start menu lists with the same icons, i.e. the new LO icons.
I was able eventually to go in and change each OOo 3.3 icon via the shortcut
properties to the correct icon only if I didn't tell it to "apply" the
change, but just LMB "OK". Opening up the properties showed the correct icon,
but it was not the icon that was displayed for the shortcut. Something messed
up in W2K. I may only be a problem with W2K if no one has seen that. I know
it didn't happen at work with XP.