Description of problem: If I open a powerpoint file with openoffice through kde, OO asks me what the filetype is, while I said in kde open with 'presentation'. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.0.2 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a ppt file in konqueror and open with 'presentation'. 2. See how OO ask the filetype. 3. Actual results: Expected results: OO should know that if I open a powerpoint file with 'presentation' that it is a powerpoint file and it should open without questions. Additional info:
attach the presentation if you can, it might be the case that there's something special about this specific presentation if it was detected as a .ppt initially on the simple test, but then not as one on the deeper attempt to open it by OOo Also output of... > rpm -q openoffice.org-impress
The file is: http://www.win.tue.nl/~mdberg/Onderwijs/OvA2_2006/Slides/OvA2_coll1.ppt (Actually, all files on that page do this, but I also found other files with the same behaviour, but I do not have those links anymore) I just found out that kde tries to open it with: openoffice.org-2.0 -impress %U If I open it with ooimpress it does work. If I open openoffice.org-2.0 -impress from the commandline it does go to impress without asking (without filename, so empty presentation). $ rpm -q openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-impress-2.0.2-5.19.2
openoffice.org-2.0 -impress /path/to/filename should open it as well
That seems to work too, but then I have to save the file first. If I open the file with: ooimpress %U it fails to detect too, but if I open it with ooimpress it does work. Same also for openoffice.org-2.0 -impress, without the %U it works, with it, it asks for the type first. Maybe a kde bug instead of OOo bug? Or the default setting in fedora should be changed in the launching to work without the '%U'?
the %U is supposed to be the field that gets replace with the filename by KDE/GNOME, i.e. foome %U twiddle turns into foome "/tmp/filename.ods" twiddle
Upstreamed as http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=72068: seems specific to typedetection of .ppt when passing http://location/foo.ppt to OOo, problem isn't there for .doc or for .odp