Bug#401901: openoffice.org: oocalc script hides useful -calc option
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 2.0.4-7
Severity: minor
The oocalc script has a -calc option that only opens a new oocalc
session. In fact, there is an option to soffice itself that
can also be used to *force* OOo to open a document in calc instead of
one of the other components.
For example a data file foo.dat can be opened in oocalc rather than
oowriter by specifying:
soffice -calc foo.dat
This is a really useful feature.
Unfortunately, the oocalc program itself doesn't work in this way and
the feature is lost. Neither of these work in the desired way:
oocalc foo.dat
oocalc -calc foo.dat
With the data file being opened in oowriter instead of in calc.
Perhaps the ooo-wrapper script needs changing to respect this option?
Perhaps an soffice man page is needed to advertise this option?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (100, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.4.20060713
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii openoffice.org-base 2.0.4-7 OpenOffice.org office suite - data
ii openoffice.org-calc 2.0.4-7 OpenOffice.org office suite - spre
ii openoffice.org-core 2.0.4-7 OpenOffice.org office suite archit
ii openoffice.org-draw 2.0.4-7 OpenOffice.org office suite - draw
ii openoffice.org-impress 2.0.4-7 OpenOffice.org office suite - pres
ii openoffice.org-java-common 2.0.4-7 OpenOffice.org office suite Java s
ii openoffice.org-math 2.0.4-7 OpenOffice.org office suite - equa
ii openoffice.org-writer 2.0.4-7 OpenOffice.org office suite - word
openoffice.org recommends no packages.
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