NeoOffice 3.1.1 Beta does not import 3.0.x keyboard shortcut

[Lorinda]

[Lorinda]

Found it!

~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-3.0/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Accelerators.xcu

Looks like all the keyboard shortcuts are in one file, instead of separated out by module. I added a custom keyboard shortcut in Calc and it was written to the same file.

Lorinda

[pluby]

[Lorinda]

I've attached a zip file with:

-Accelerators.xcu
-calc_current.xml
-writer_current.xml

Note that the calc and writer files were just named "current.xml" but stored in different folders. I had to rename them when I stuck them in the same folder.

The full path for the writer file is:

~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-3.0/user/config/soffice.cfg/modules/swriter/accelerator/en-US/current.xml

For calc, substitute scalc for swriter, and you have the path

The global keyboard settings appear to be in the following location:
~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-3.0/user/config/soffice.cfg/global/accelerator/en-US/current.xml


Oh, and note that the en-US folder will have a different name for those individuals not using en-US as their GUI language.


Lorinda

[pluby]

Lorinda,

Thank you for the files. I will look at the files and see if they have any common structure that we can use to fashion some simple steps for importing pre-NeoOffice 3.1.1 Beta keyboard shortcuts.

Patrick

[Lorinda]

You're welcome. I forgot to mention that the keyboard shortcut I created in Calc today was not one I had created in Calc before (in 3.0.2 or earlier). So far as I can remember, I had not created any Calc-specific custom keyboard shortcuts.

I created one today just to see if the info was saved in the same Accelerators.xcu file as the Writer shortcuts were.

Let me know if you need any other "current" files from my Neo 3.0 preferences file. I honestly don't remember if I had set any other custom keyboard shortcuts. I use Writer more than anything else, so my best guess is that only the "global" file is likely to have any customizations. But maybe one of the other volunteers can provide some other data if you need it.

Lorinda

[pluby]

Thank you for the sample files. The bad news is that OpenOffice.org has totally changed nearly every bit of the keyboard shortcut preference file format starting in OpenOffice 3.1 so I doubt we will be able to come up with manual steps that are not more complex than recreating the shortcuts in the Tools :: Configure menu's dialog.

What I will look at is if the OpenOffice.org 3.1.x code can import an export file of the OpenOffice.org 3.0.x shortcut preferences. IIRC, you can export those preferences to a file and then load those preferences back in. The idea is that if the OpenOffice.org 3.1.x code can load older export files, then I might be able to come up with some simple manual steps or possibly automate the import.

Patrick

[pluby]

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that the OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 cannot directly import the old custom.xml file format that OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 and earlier used to store custom keyboard shortcuts in. As a result, there is no way to automatically import these custom keyboard shortcuts in NeoOffice 3.1.1 Beta.

The good news is that I found a way to import them. However, you need NeoOffice 3.0.2 to be installed to do it. Here are the steps:

1. Launch NeoOffice 3.0.2, select the Tools :: Customize menu, and in the dialog that appears click on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab.

2. Export your keyboard shortcuts to a file by pressing the Save button. Note that selecting the Global radio button will only export the keyboard shortcuts that are common to all NeoOffice applications and selecting the other radio button will only export the current NeoOffice application's keyboard shortcuts.

3. Quit NeoOffice 3.0.2 and launch NeoOffice 3.1.1 Beta.

4. Select the Tools :: Customize menu, and in the dialog that appears click on the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. Set the radio button to match what you set it to when you exported the keyboard shortcuts in NeoOffice 3.0.2.

5. Press the Load button and select the file that you exported in NeoOffice 3.0.2.

The above is not ideal, but for those users that have more than a few custom keyboard shortcuts, using these steps may be faster than manually recreating all of their custom keyboard shortcuts.

Hope that helps,

Patrick

[Lorinda]

Thanks for looking into this, Patrick! My list of custom keyboard shortcuts is pretty small, so I can just recreate them. But these instructions will be important for other folks.

I'll see if I can't get them into the wiki sometime this week.

Lorinda