On Friday 28 February 2020 13:22:19 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
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.
In Open Office, I am pretty sure that I can still right-click on images and
then choose to copy them. (This might have changed, as I haven't used that
trick in a long while.) Then I manually paste them into a file manager, such
as Konqueror, then open that file in GIMP. Then repeat the other steps as I
said already.
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
In general, I stick to the most primitive features of office programs. When I
do page layout, I basically am doing it the old-fashioned way (I mean, before
computers), so that my pages have the look of a real book. Whenever I use the
automated "features", something almost always goes wrong; and the best
possible result is to end up with pages that don't quite look like I want.
Rather than expecting the machine to do things for me unasked, or to
anticipate what I want, I just want my machine to obey me. If I wanted
something with a mind of its own, I would get a dog, or worse, a cat.
Bill