[kde-linux] Getting KDE apps to open files with most recent OOorg version

Jim Philips philips_jim at bellsouth.net
Mon Jan 5 22:44:37 UTC 2009


john d. herron wrote:
> Hi, all.
> On my kubuntu box there are two versions of the OpenOffice.org office
> suite: 2.2 and 3.0.
> I'd like to have KDE apps see OOo 3.0 as the default one; but
> currently if I have, say, Krusader open a document for me, it will
> always open it in OOo 2.2. How can I tell KDE (or should I tell
> kubuntu instead?) to automatically target OOorg 3.0?
> Thanks for helping.
> jdh
> ___________________________________
> kubuntu 7.04 - intel P4 - 512 MB
>

Well, OOO is not yet supported in Kubuntu, not even in 8.10. So, how did
you install it? Anyway, if you open Konqueror and go to Settings-->File
Associations, you will have some options for controlling which
applications are called by KDE when you go to open a file.



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