From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: When I use a command such as oowriter filename.odt & at the command prompt, the program responds with a dialog box stating that the file does not exist. Oowriter does not start in this situation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-writer-1.9.117-3.1.0.fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Issue the oowriter command with the name of a new, nonexistent file as it's argument. 2. 3. Actual Results: Dialog box appeared telling me that the file does not exist. Oowriter does not start. Expected Results: The program should have started, and created a new file for me given the filename, and it should take the file type based on the extension. If there is no extension, assume the default file type. Additional info: This is perhaps a small item, but it is really helpful to be able to create a new file on the fly. This would improve usability a lot for those who use the shell prompt.
Enhancement is more suitable for upstream, I've logged it as http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=53065