Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 55273
kde office submenu does not contain openoffice.org-2.0 items on Debian sarge
Last modified: 2005-11-10 11:38:43 UTC
The kde office submenu does not contain the openoffice.org-2.0 items after upgrading from OOo 2.0 beta to OOo 2.0 beta2, on Debian 3.1. Prior to upgrading, the menu items were there, and labeled openoffice.org-1.9xxxx. This is after installing the openoffice.org-debian-menus package using dpkg, as well as all rpms in the top-level directory of the install tree (after conversion by alien to debs).
just for the records: I get the OOo1.9 items using OOo1.9m130 on (german version of) Ubuntu linux inthe Officemenu ("Büroprogramme")...
This issue pertains to the 2.0-rc1 linux download, which unpacks into a directory named OOO680_m1_native_packed-5_en-US.8958. The issue was not present in the previous release, which was part of the 1.9 series. When opening the issue, the latest release I could pick was beta2 - I think this must be identical to rc1.
I can confirm this bug. This problem exists not only with KDE, but also with GNOME and other freedesktop.org compliant menu systems, which use launchers (.desktop files) from /usr/share/applications/ Problem is in changed folder name, where openoffice.org2 is installed. In OOo2.0rc1 this folder is named /opt/openoffice.org2.0, but in desktop-integration/openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.0.0-1_all.deb incorrect symlink /etc/openoffice.org-2.0 exists, which points to nonexisting folder /opt/openoffice.org2.0.0 So, there are very quick solution for this - simply change the symlink "/etc/openoffice.org-2.0" (which is in desktop-integration/openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.0.0-1_all.deb) to point to correct current install folder - /opt/openoffice.org2.0 I think priority of this bug should be increased to P2, as "Functional area gets lost" or "Basic functionality is not working correctly" - this bug is a regression and simple user simply can't start OpenOffice.org in Debian GNU/Linux based OS, because he simply can't find how to launch it - nor freedesktop.org menu launchers ( .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/), nor debian menu launchers (file /usr/lib/menu/openoffice.org-debian-menus is also incorrect - it contains entries like command="%unixfilename -writer" instead of command="/usr/bin/openoffice.org-2.0 -writer") work. AFAIK target should be set to 2.0.0, because it is very simple to fix - by simply changing the symlink (see above). Please fix this bug in OOo 2.0RC2.
*** Issue 55273 has been confirmed by votes. ***
please make it into RC2, if possible.
*** Issue 55355 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 55272 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
grabbing this issue.
Created attachment 30099 [details] Fix for the version problem in debian-menus
Fix commited in CWS ooo20m1.
of and me have seen this working again in CWS ooo20m1.
Seems to be o.k. in OOO680 m3 and SRC680 m137.