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Open Office Documents in "Recent Documents" Menu do not work

Bug #43226 reported by David Tester
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

This occurs in Dapper Beta. If I open a .odt file, it shows up in the 'recent documents' menu. When I go to that menu and choose that file, I get a message saying "Could not find suitable application".

Opening other kinds of documents this way works just fine.

Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package 'openoffice'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.

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Aaron Browne (podge) wrote :

Unable to replicate bug in Dapper Beta.

- Started OOo2 Writer
- Created new .odt file and saved out.
- Opened successfully via Places->Recent Documents

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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

i have seen this, i had the examples/oo-introducing-ubuntu.odt in my recent docs, and it would not open, same error message. but other oo docs would. i cleared the recent docs, and it it seems to work ok.

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Rafał Próchniak (burlap) wrote :

It happened in dapper flights, the same is in dapper official.
I have the same problem: some documents are properly recognized, others aren't.

This is .recently-used entry for the file that doesn't open:
<RecentItem>
<URI>file:///media/hda8/burlap/dokumenty/praca/rozdzialy/oprogramowanie/tekst_oprogramowanie.odt</URI>
<Mime-Type>application/octet-stream</Mime-Type>
<Timestamp>1149197244</Timestamp>
<Groups>
<Group>openoffice.org</Group>
<Group>staroffice</Group>
<Group>starsuite</Group>
</Groups>
</RecentItem>

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Rafał Próchniak (burlap) wrote :

Similar or duplicate:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/47506

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Steven Harms (sharms) wrote :

Tested in Dapper release, does not exist for sample documents. Confirm that this is still an issue?

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Charles Gaush (cjg) wrote :

This may have to do with ODF documents that have been created by conversion from another format. I copied the contents of an offending .ods spreadsheet to a new blank .ods file and this file opened from Ubuntu's Recent Documents with no problem.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Do you still have that issue?

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.

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IMBJR (imbjr) wrote :

I am seeing this effect when I attempt to open GIMP xcf files from the "Recent Documents" menu.

A dialog pops up and states "Could not open recently used document "file:///home/<me>/Picutures/<file name>.xcf"

Such files open OK if opened from Nautilus or the application itself.

I've noticed that right-clicking the file reveals a MIME type of image/x-xcf, whereas the .recently-used.xbel file has it as image/xcf (no x-).

This was observed with Gutsy.

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