Re: Gnome/Nautilus extensions for OpenOffice.org

[Seth Nickell <seth gnome org>]

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 09:18, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> hello Oliver,
> 
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Oliver Braun wrote:
> 
> > - additional context menu entries for OpenOffice.org file type (e.g. a
> > "show" entry that opens a presentation directly in full screen mode)
> 
> I am a bit concerned that when many apps start doing this, the - already
> quite long - context menu will really start to overflow. I mean, OO.o
> documents are also zipfiles, so perhaps File Roller will want to add some
> items too. And why not have a 'Print as handouts' context menu item as
> well?

So the issue here then is not that OOo wants to add items to the context
menu, but that OOo documents are also recognized as zip files (are they
recognized that way? they shouldn't be, I don't care if they technically
are, they shouldn't show up that way at all).

> Is the added convenience of a 'Show' menu item so great that people will
> prefer it over activating the document and clicking the Presentation
> button? (this is what I see people do with ppt all the time.)

I think so, yes. Starting a presentation without wanting to show the
slides up on the screen is a pretty reasonable thing... starting (as
opposed to editing) a presentation is the "other" common way to use the
files, and it would be nice to support that use directly from the file
manager.

-Seth