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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...