[libreoffice-users] Re: Side by side install of LibO and OOo

Jay Lozier wrote:
> I have seen with other file types particularly audio and video files
> where you might have two or three players and the last one installed
> changes the file associations in the registry to it.
Jay, that's right. A well-behaved program should inform the user during
installation what it's going to do and offer the option of taking over all
the file associations the program want, none of them, or individually choose
only some. 

VLC (VideoLanClient) does exactly that. Last time I installed VLC, the file
associations it wanted (all 98 of them!) appeared in a dialog box during
installation. They were sorted into categories and sub-categories and each
one of them could be selected or unselected individually. The only thing
missing was extensive help for users unsure of what choices to make.

However, in the case of LibO/OOo it might be better not to give too
fine-grained a choice to the user... or perhaps the ability to
select/unselect each file type should be hidden far down some "Advanced
Users Only" dialog box. Otherwise there will be lots of confused users
asking questions like, "When I double-click .odt files I get LibO Writer,
when I double click .ott files I get OOo Writer, what's wrong??" when the
answer will be, "It happens because of the choices you made during
installation."

Come to think, I suspect that's why the recommendation to uninstall OOo is
there: someone thought this would be a good idea to forestall requests for
assistance coming in. If I'm right about that, then it wasn't such a good
idea, more like throwing out the baby with the bathwater...

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