[26392] in Athena Bugs
Re: Openoffice default save directory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Mar 10 20:17:29 2005
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:16:39 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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>Kevin is right, my initial report was wrong; this was for importing
>graphics. I had been asking students to place matlab figures into writer
>and they were quite confused by the AFS directory structure (they are
>very new to athena). Of course, I filed the bug later when I had
>forgotten exactly what the problem was.
>
>Thanks Kevin!
> ...Eric
>
>On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:21:32AM -0500, Kevin Chen wrote:
>>
>> > That's odd, and I can't reproduce it. I did File -> Open in Writer, it
>> > defaulted to the user's home dir, and I imported a .jpg image just
>> > fine.
>>
>> I was able to reproduce this just now, though the initial problem
>> description seems to be a bit misleading.
>>
>> I started a new presentation with OpenOffice.org on a Linux-Athena
>> 9.3.18 system. At one point, I needed to import a graphic, so I
>> clicked Insert -> Graphics. This brought up the open dialog box and
>> put me in
>> /var/athena/local/ooffice_v1.1.4/distrib/i386_rhel3/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/user/gallery.
Well,
I can reproduce this, but I think it's in the "it's not a bug,
it's a feature" category. I'm pretty sure ooffice defaults to the
directory you refer to for importing sample images. It has a path
starting "/var/.." because we're copying the locker locally to improve
performance.
If you run Tools -> Options -> Paths, and change one or both of the
Gallery and Graphics path settings to be just your home directory (or
whatever...) the setting will stick. This is a bit tricky but can be
done; I'm not sure if you need both but I did one first, that didn't
do it, so then I did the other and it worked- don't recall which I did
first..
Alex
