Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 07:32:04 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> Cc: openoffice@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice 2.0 and KDE Message-ID: <200605080732.05143.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <445EE54A.20909@greenmeadow.ca> References: <200605062350.14257.jhb@freebsd.org> <200605072349.04750.jhb@freebsd.org> <445EE54A.20909@greenmeadow.ca>
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On Monday 08 May 2006 02:29, Duane Whitty wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > On Sunday 07 May 2006 03:08, Duane Whitty wrote: > >> John Baldwin wrote: > >>> Now that the 1.1.x port is broken on 6.1 and later (thus leaving > >>> 2.0 as the only buildable OOo for 6.1) it would be really nice to > >>> get the KDE integration working again. It seems that editing the > >>> .desktop files and putting them someplace that KDE can see them > >>> (I made a /usr/local/share/applnk/OpenOffice 2.0.2/ directory) > >>> gets OOo to show up in the K menu and the file associations to > >>> work, but it would be nice to have some icons. Unfortunately, > >>> I either have insufficient google skills or no one has working > >>> icons for OOo 2.0 with KDE as I couldn't find any useful info > >>> on getting the icons to work. Any ideas? > >>> > >>> It would be really nice to at least have a FAQ question for getting > >>> OOo 2.x and KDE to play nice even if it just listed the steps one > >>> needs to do by hand. > >> > >> # find /usr/local/share -name "staroffice.svg*" -print > >> > >> /usr/local/share/icons/crystalsvg/scalable/apps/staroffice.svgz > >> /usr/local/share/icons/mono/scalable/apps/staroffice.svgz > >> > >> My personal preference is the crystalsvg/scalable/staroffice.svgz icon. > >> It is what I have loaded in my kicker bar. > >> To start the OOo 2.0.2 suite I use the executable > >> at /usr/local/bin/openoffice.org-2.0.2 (haven't checked, maybe it is a > >> shell script) > > > > And how do I use these? They don't just work by default with the > > .desktop files that OOo installs. Assume for a second that I'm not > > intimately familiar with the details of svg (esp. since I'm not). > > I don't know anything about svg or svgz either. I am making the leap that > they mean scalable vector graphics and scalable vector graphics compresse= d, > respectively. Yes, if you gzcat them you get a xml file that contains vector graphics info. > I have no idea how I made the decision to try them out. =20 > What I did was added an application to the KDE panel (kicker). Then I > right clicked > on the icon that was present, scrolled to the bottom and entered in the > path of > the icon. Ah, ok. Hmm. > Anyhow, I hope this helps and my apologies if my response was a little too > terse to be helpful. It's ok. I was so used to OOo 1.x just working out of the box I was hoping that there wouldn't be as much manual labor involved. :-P I'll probably try Bartosz's suggestion of using the icons in the actual OOo dist instead, but it looks like they will need to be renamed. =2D-=20 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> =A0<>< =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" =A0=3D =A0http://www.FreeBSD.org
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