Bug 76824
Summary: | Is openoffice editing my dotfiles (in $HOME) !?? | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Telsa Gwynne <hobbit> |
Component: | openoffice.org | Assignee: | Dan Williams <dcbw> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 8.0 | ||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-12-05 19:22:44 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Telsa Gwynne
2002-10-27 15:51:39 UTC
At the least, you can expect OpenOffice to edit the following dotfiles: .sversionrc .openoffice .mime.types See the code in /usr/bin/ooffice. .sversionrc and .openoffice seem OK, since they're owned by OpenOffice or something, but .mime.types is dubious -- especially since the user may already have entries for the defined mime-types. OOo modifies mailcap as well. The graphical installation program can certainly ask whether to edit these files or not, but what should happen when the setup program is run from the launcher script non-graphically and cannot receive user input? It cannot put up a graphical dialog to ask, and it cannot receive user input via the terminal. Since that's an important part of the launch process, should your user installation be missing or corrupted, I'm closing this as WONTFIX. The entries should not be in /etc/mailcap because these are, well, user settings. They are not system wide and a person who does not use OOo probably would not want system-wide settings modified for no benefit. Would a simple notice in documentation be appropriate with all this in mind? I see your point about non-GUI installation. So yes, if it is going to do this, then a notice in the documentation (which I promise to read :)) is ideal. If it says which specific files it is likely to modify (like the FILES section some man pages have), then I feel I know what's going on and that I can alter it back if I want to. Thanks! |