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openoffice.org package

OOXML files should be associated with openoffice

Bug #173093 reported by Pascal d'Hermilly
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
In Progress
Low
Unassigned
Nominated for Hardy by Thomas Novin

Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Openoffice 2.3 is able to open basic OOXML files, so files like .docx files should be associated with openoffice instead of an unzipper program.
This occurs in both KDE and Gnome.

//Pascal

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Pascal d'Hermilly (pascal-tipisoft) wrote :

I think it would be a good idea to set this as a goal of Hardy Heron as more and more people will be getting .docx files and the like.
There is no sense in not utilising the hard work being done by the openoffice community.

Nanley Chery (nanoman)
Changed in openoffice.org:
status: New → Confirmed
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Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen) wrote :

Yes, I agree. Maybe even a gutsy backport for the mime-types.
Does anyone know how to set this up?

I think it just requires a mime-types file. But what should it look like?

Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in openoffice.org:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Thomas Novin (thomasn80) wrote :

Verified that OOo can open both docx and xlsx. Nominating for Hardy...

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Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas) wrote : Re: OOXML files (docx, pptx, xlsx) should be associated with openoffice

Isn't this bug a duplicate of bug #138252 ?

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