Re: [OOo-Hebrew] OpenOffice Settings

Hi Yaniv,

OOo does have XML files which contain settings (in the share/registry 
directory), but I would recommend changing settings from the "Tools" 
menu instead of manually editing the XML files.

First, there is not just one ini file, but are numerous XML text files 
which contain various OOo settings, so you have to know which file and 
which setting you want, and which choices are legal. If you make a 
mistake here, you won't get the results you want, and OOo might even crash.

Second, there is one set of files which contains defaults for all users, 
and there is another set for each user which contains overrides for the 
defaults. So you may have to check both sets of files to get the desired 
results.

Third, the user settings are kept in a cache, so even if you change the 
files the right way, you won't see the results if OOo is still using the 
cached data.

If you're still interested, you can check out
http://util.openoffice.org/common/configuration/oor-document-format.html
to learn how the registry works.

So unless you know your way around the OOo registry pretty well, I 
wouldn't edit the XML files. Most anything you need you can set in the 
Tools/Options window.

Alan

Yaniv Abir wrote:
> I would find it very useful if I could edit the text file that contains 
> all the options from OO.o's options menu (if one exists), so it could 
> just paste it as needed in any OO.o. installation. Now, I couldn't find 
> that file, so I ask again if anyone knows how and where OO.o stores the 
> options and configurations?
> 
> 
> Yaniv
> 
> 
> Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 20:36 +0200, Yaniv Abir wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>I noticed that while you were talking about OO.o settings you
>>>menstioned LC_LANG, LC_ALL etc.. I gathered that these are the names
>>>of the Languages settings from the Options menu
>>> as they are in the OO.o configuration files.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>Actually, these are the names of locale-settings environment variables,
>>which are not specific to OpenOffice. You can see yours by typing the
>>local command in a terminal window.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I wondered if anyone could point me to these files on Linux (Ubuntu),
>>>that would be a great help for me.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>What are trying to do? I'm not clear to which files you want to access
>>exactly.
>>--
>>Shoshannah Forbes
>>http://www.xslf.com
>>
>>
>>  
>>
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