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

Hi :)
There is a lot of stuff that only devs would understand that would explain why 
OOo and LO are not easily able to sit on the same system.  Clashes seem to be 
reduced if you turn off the "Quick Start" but using the guides on how to install 
both is really the only answer for most of us.  


There have been a lot of clashes between LO and OOo installed on a single 
system.  Hence the page showing how to do it safely.  The LO code-base started 
off being identical to OOos and both still date back to the time they were 
called Star Office.  


Conjecture from non-devs (such as me) is unlikely to arrive at a reasonable 
explanation.  I gather that it is something that LO devs want to work on at some 
point but probably that will be much easier after code-clean-up is completed.  I 
suspect it's likely to break a lot of compatibility with existing Extensions so 
it's not something to rush into.  


Regards from
Tom :)




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From: aqualung <xfekdcugjrkz@mailinator.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Tue, 21 June, 2011 7:51:44
Subject: [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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