[ale] oocalc: a sad story from a oocalc newbie

[Geoffrey]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> Greg,
> Openoffice normally opens with the working directory set to some
> default.  If you didn't set the path to that xls file you wanted to open
> explicitly you should get a file not found.  It certainly wasn't looking
> in the current directory of your shell.  GIMP works the same way.  Try
> gimp in a subdirectory of your home directory on OpenSuSE and it's
> default working directory is switched back to your home directory.
> Dow

Dow, is this a new functionality with OpenSuSE?  The reason I ask is, I 
don't recall this from my SuSE days.  Maybe I don't understand your 
posting.  If I cd to a directory where I have document then do:

soffice document.ods

openoffice opens the file just fine.

Now if I go to file->open, it does by default show me my Documents 
directory.  Maybe this is what you're saying?

Anyway, my expectation is that if the file exists in the current 
directory and you do 'soffice foo.ods', open office should open the file 
just fine.  If the file does not exist, you should get a popup that says 
the file does not exist.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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