KDE Office filters

[Craig White]

Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 
> On Monday 02 July 2001 12:44 pm, Craig White wrote:
> > Thus far - every time I have tried to open a .doc file with KWord, it just
> > says could not open file of type application/msword and completely quits -
> > similar happens when I use KSpread/.xls file. I presume that is because you
> > are using a cvs version and not a general release that slobs like me are
> > using.
> 
> No, this has nothing to do with a release vs CVS.  It sounds like you either
> don't have the filters install for some really odd reason (maybe accidently
> deleted them?) or the mimetype cache isn't picking them up.
> 
> First, try seeing if the necessary files exist:
>  $KDEDIR/share/services/ole_winword97_import.desktop
>  $KDEDIR/lib/libolefilter.so
> 
> Second, try rebuilding the mimetype database:
>  'kbuildsycoca'
> 
> Let me know if that works.
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done - restarted x (kde) and same issue.

also - copied a test file over from Windows server so it was in local
directory - same issue.

I've always just figured that it was a non-implemented feature. I
suppose that I could take this to a KDE list but I'm not on any KDE
lists.

Craig