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On 6/6/12 4:17 AM, Shenfeng Liu wrote:
> As I remember, it is the 2nd customer complaint we got on this issue. And
> some of us (e.g. Jihui) has confirmed it. If that's the case, my question
> is do we have a defect id to trace it? If no, let's create one. And I will
> suggest it as 3.4.1 must fix.
> 

an issue is good but we should be careful and should define a potential
new default in detail. How exactly we want define the new default,
having 2 complaints is not much compared to thousand of Windows users.

I don't say that we shouldn't change it but we should be clear of what
we are doing. We can't change things every time when 1 single person
don't like the default.

Juergen

> 
> 2012/6/6 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org>
> 
>> Now that would be hilarious if that were the problem. Well, I am not
>> calling him back to ask him what file extension, I spent about an hour
>> chatting with him. I do not have time for a repeat.
>>
>>
>> On 06/05/2012 03:01 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>> It seems that Windows 7 Wordpad will also open for an ODT file if no
>>> Microsoft Office or *Office[.org] application has claimed the default.
>>>
>>>  - Dennis
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Keith N. McKenna [mailto:keith.mckenna@comcast.**net<keith.mckenna@comcast.net>
>>> ]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 05:34
>>> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
>>> Subject: Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4
>>>
>>> Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 06/04/2012 11:07 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Kay Schenk<kay.schenk@gmail.com>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>> .
>>>>>
>>>>>> In no circumstance should AOO establish itself as a default for any
>>>>>> file
>>>>>> type.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I'd say "In no circumstance should AOO establish itself as a default
>>>>> for any file type which is already associated with another program."
>>>>> That is, we shouldn't "steal" file associations. If, OTOH, someone is
>>>>> installing AOO on a box without MS Office, then it makes perfect sense
>>>>> to make AOO the default program for .doc, .ppt, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Likewise, most people probably don't have a "native" ODF program on
>>>>> their systems, and installing AOO as the default for ODF would
>>>>> probably make sense in most cases.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Phil
>>>>>
>>>>>  Claim is that it hijacked files from word pad. No idea what that
>>>> extension might be, i did not ask him.
>>>>
>>>>  the default extension for wordpad is rtf and AOO does appear to define
>>> itself as the default for that extension.
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Keith
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Andrew Pitonyak
>> My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/**AndrewMacro.odt<http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt>
>> Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
>>
>>
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