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[Jono Bacon]

On 9/3/05, David Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> you very cleverly winged about the whole open office situation but I
> must just point out that if I manged to figure out how to fix it then
> most people should be able to.  Also you didn't post your fix.  Simply
> changing the .sversionrc from 1.1.3= to 1.1.4=.

(David is referring to http://www.jonobacon.org/viewcomments.php?id=530)

There are few points here.

Firstly, the point I was making is that when an error in execution
occurs in a GUI application, there should be some means of
communicating that message in a way that the user can (a) see and (b)
understand. The problem was that it failed in (a) totally as most
people will simply not see console output. There is no reason why
OpenOffice.org could not throw up a dialog box - even if it can't load
OpenOffice.org, it could throw up a primative X window.

As for posting a fix, how can I do that? The fix to this problem is to
fix the OpenOffice.org core, and I don't have the time or inclination
to implement that. Renaming the directory or removing it is not a fix,
it is a workaround. My contribution was to report this via my website.
I have also been meaning to get round to submitting a bug, but I have
been a bit tied up recently.

  Jono