[Libreoffice] Change executable/sh names

[NoOp]

On 12/23/2010 08:49 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/18/2010 03:48 AM, Jesús Corrius wrote:
>>> Right-click the .odt and select 'Open With' (WinXPPro); the 'Programs'
>>> window shows only option for LibO, not OOo. It does show options for
>>> Word if MS Word is installed and has the odf converter installed. I've
>>> repeated this on my WinXPro VM by:
>>>
>>> 1. Uninstalling all instances of OOo and LibO.
>>> 2. Reinstall OOo (3.2.1 OOO320m18) and verify that the .odt's are
>>> associated with OOo.
>>> 3. Reinstall LibORC1 (OOO330m18). The .odt's are now associated *only*
>>> with LibO *and* cannot be reassociated with OOo from right-clicking and
>>> 'Open With' from Windows Explorer.
>> 
>> I was expecting to find some problem with the merge of the
>> SupportedTypes in the registry during the installation, but everything
>> worked fine in my Windows XP SP2. I've followed your instructions and
>> I now have two entries in the "Open With" context menu, one for
>> OpenOffice.org and the other one for LibreOffice.
>> 
>> Anyone else is able to reproduce this?
>> 
>>> My guess is that the problem is with the common swriter.exe (et al)
>>> executable name. If I get time over the weekend I'll modify the names in
>>> the Windows registry to see if I can cause the situation to change.
>> 
>> As I mentioned before, in the registry there's the full path of the
>> executable, so it doesn't matter if they have the same name provided
>> that the path is different.
>> 
>> Here you have info on how this works:
>> 
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee872121(v=VS.85).aspx
> 
> Nope. That's not how it works. Sorry for the delay in responding, but
> your system does not work the same as mine (WinXPPro SP3). I went back
> and repeated my initial. Here are screenshots of those:
> 
> http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5827/screenshotwithoooonly.png
> Only OOo 3.2.1 installed.
> 
> Now I install LibO - and in this case I installed LibORC2 just to be
> sure that the test is current. And this is the result:
> http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/4994/screenshotwithliborc2.png
> http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9178/screenshotwithliborc22.png
> Notice that all references to OOo are now missing.
> 
> So now I do the open with & browse to OOo swriter.exe and use that -
> guess what happens... the .doc file opens in LibO.
> 
> As a test I rename the swriter.exe in C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org
> 3\program
> to ooowriter.exe
> and guess what happens when I use the choose program on the next go
> around? Yep, the .doc now opens with OOo. And guess what now shows up in
> the 'open with' dialog window... OOo:
> http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4567/screenshotoootoooowrite.png
> 
> I'm happy to swap stories/tests, but IMO the problem still exists,

Sorry, forgot to add the screenshot of where I'd changed OOo swriter.exe
to ooowriter.exe - here it is:
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/93/screenshotooowriter.png