Thanks for all the support! Next time I'll insist on LaTeX again,I guess :(
Anno domini 2020 Fri, 28 Feb 13:00:56 -0800 William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
On Friday 28 February 2020 12:29:40 Michael wrote:
On Friday 28 February 2020 02:21:21 pm Michael wrote:
On Friday 28 February 2020 01:54:26 pm Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Anno domini 2020 Fri, 28 Feb 13:49:24 -0600
David C. Rankin scripsit:
On 02/28/2020 12:41 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
But how do I persuade that piece of a genius to call gimp ???
Ah, hit send too soon :( Another possibility...
As they are both open source, IF LO and FF are written in close to the same language and if you also know a similar language, it shouldn't be terribly difficult to rip out the FF code (about:preferences > General > Applications) and merge it into LO. LO already has a 'Paths' section, so you could use that for your LO template.
Ok, there's no way to configure that pestilence. It always calls xdg-open with absolute path (I'm sure somebody got payed quite a reasonable amount of money to remove the config dialog that was present some versions back). Patching LO is way too clumsy, so I'll have to patch xdg-open - at least that is still an editable textfile ... yes, cheers, somebody will soon discover that and patch it to be binary :(
For what it's worth, I open up graphics files for editing directly in GIMP, and almost never use "open with" features; but especially not in a word processing program. (Also, I use Open Office, and never warmed up to LibreOffice. They say they're interchangeable, but it's not true.)
Problem is: there are already images inside the presentation and I do not have the original images. And guess what: the "feature" "save image as .." is gone, too. Probably removed by the same GNOME as the config dialog.
Too many things can go wrong, like everything crashing, etc. Better to open it in GIMP, then edit, then save, and when you're done, import the file, however you like to do it, into your office program.
If you're working on short documents, maybe it doesn't matter too much, but when you have large documents with lots of big graphics files, you will run into that problem of crashing. And nothing kills inspiration like a misbehaving machine.
Oh yes. That's the next thing I fear. And the stuff is graphic-intense. Oh my, I think it's called progress ... wait a second, wasn't that the deault behaviour of "the great destroyer of companies and unlimited macro fun" aka "Word"?
Nik
Bill
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