Re: [libreoffice-users] *Persistent* System Level Custom Options?

Hi :)
Wow!!!  It's rare for someone to go ahead and make something like that
which many other people would also probably find useful!!  Welcome in
chap!

Is there any chance of you uploading your Extension to
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/

Preferably give it an Open Source / copyleft license such as a
"Creative Commons" license?  Then other people might be able to help
by looking over your code, suggesting and making changes and generally
helping keep it up-to-date
http://creativecommons.org/

Many thanks and regards (and congrats) from
Tom :)))

On 4 February 2014 19:01, iveand <iveand@gmail.com> wrote:
> Stephan (and others),
>
> Thanks again for your reply.  With your help here and from the bug
> report referenced earlier I have been able to successfully create an
> .oxt that will set "our preferred settings".  As it is a "shared"
> extension it sits between the "system settings" (which are overridden on
> new version upgrade) and the "user settings".  So, a user can still
> override these settings should they wish.
>
> > Sorry, my DevGuide URL was wrong, it should be
> > <https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Extensions/Extensions>.
>
> Unfortunately this seems "offline" today, as it is just displaying an
> empty page.  I got it from Google Cache, however, and with your other
> example links was able to put something together.  I would hope that
> somehow <http://extensions.libreoffice.org> would link to a "how to make
> extensions for beginners guide", which could be the AOO docs for now as
> a minimum.
>
> > For an example "configuration-only" extension,
> > <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69609#c3> has a link to
> > <http://www.linuxtag.org/2012/fileadmin/www.linuxtag.org/slides/Thorsten%20Behrens%20-%20LibreOffice%20configuration%20management%20-%20Tools_%20approaches%20and%20best%20practices.p331.pdf>
> > which in turn has a link to
> > <http://users.freedesktop.org/~thorsten/extensions/config_only_sample.oxt>.
>
> For anyone interested, here then is my first stab at creating an
> extension which will set our required "system wide defaults".  It is
> installed with "unopkg add --shared ssg-defaults.oxt"
>
> <https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0WVXg1DL6duNkE2WUFZWGFETEE>
>
> For first timers (this was me until yesterday), the .oxt source can be
> viewed the same as a .zip archive (can even change the extension to .zip
> if you like: they are interchangeable but you want it as an .oxt in the
> finished form)
>
> For some of the settings, they aren't correctly seen by the user until
> after we remove the user's pre-existing "registrymodifications.xcu"
> (even if we didn't intentionally have any of those values overridden).
> It is my guess that is because there are some of the keys listed in the
> default generated registrymodifications.xcu that conflict -- if it was
> generated BEFORE the installation of this newly created extension.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> iveand
>
>
> > [Btw, your reply mail looked really garbled, see above. Could it be
> > you're using a mail client that only produces poorly formatted plaintext
> > alongside an HTML alternative?]
>
> I noticed that too, so thanks for the warning: I think it is the
> thunderbird "always html" extension, which I have now disabled.
> Unfortunate bug it seems in thunderbird which will revert things to text
> only email even if they were intended as html otherwise.  Another
> discussion for another list, however!  So, we'll see how this one turns
> out, and if people can follow it clearly or not.
>
>
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