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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Script at the start of KOffice
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-11-04 12:28:15
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On Monday 04 November 2002 14:34, Charles de Miramon wrote:
> > > Wait, here's an updated script, that can cope with this case,
> > > please run that one ;)
> >
> Humm David,
> 
> What would be nice for Koffice 1.3 is a script running the first time you run 
> Koffice to check that all the components (filters, dictionaries, etc...) are 
> there and found by KOffice. That would cut some user support...

Actually the apps (via some code in kofficecore) run more and more checks
at each release :)
The reason for those hand-made scripts is to find out how people can mess up
the installation, to make the apps more robust against that ;)

("first time" stuff is never very robust, one can change his installation after
running koffice many times...)

Two users had problems with not being able to open .doc documents - apparently,
one was simply trying on _one_ doc that didn't open (maybe a Word2 doc...)
and one had associated *.doc files with another mimetype (text/x-doc), so obviously
koffice couldn't know how to handle such files.... The fact that mimetypes are both
essential to the system _and_ configurable by the user is always an open door to
such problems, I don't know what we can do against it...

- -- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
Get the latest KOffice - http://download.kde.org/stable/koffice-1.2/
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