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.
>

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.) 

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. 

Bill