how to put document shortcuts on desktop?
 

I've finally broke down and installed Easy Debian to make use of a number of spreadsheets I had used with my E90. As it stands, it looks like it would take me ~4-6 minutes to run LXDE, open the file browser, find Restaurant.xls, open it, and begin entering values. That won't work.

Is there a way to utilize Debbie (what's this?) and some scripts to create a desktop shortcut to open an .xls file?

I've tried running the OpenOffice icon, but then the navigation to the spreadsheet takes (for me) longer that what I outlined above.

On my E90 I used the "Tracker" shell and had shortcuts about 10 documents (.doc and .xls) "ready to run."

Thanks,

Re: how to put document shortcuts on desktop?
 

You can create a bookmark or desktop shortcut e.g., "file:///home/user/MyDocs/.documents/test.docx"

Re: how to put document shortcuts on desktop?
 

I'd expect Gnumeric to display .xls files without running Easy Debian at all.

See http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=490201&postcount=1

Judging from the number of thanks for that post, it works -- I haven't tried it with the N900.

Edit: Actually, you should probably look at the whole thread, not just that one post:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...201#post490201

Re: how to put document shortcuts on desktop?
 

dsawhney: how do I do this? If I try to access via the Web Browser I get
Unable to Open.
File Format not Supported.

Do you mean a shortcut on the LXDE desktop? That might shave off a minute or two....

geneven: Any clue as to when Gnumeric will be available? I cannot afford to miss a call because I'm re-booting, so dev and testing are off limits to me.


Thanks!

Re: how to put document shortcuts on desktop?
 

I've tried this with Documents to Go viewer and it works fine. I can open pdf files too using the bookmark method so it should work fine for any other file type recognized by the OS.

More details in this thread - http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...uments+desktop

Re: how to put document shortcuts on desktop?
 

Docs To Go won't work, as you can't edit spreadsheets (or even enter data) with it. I've uninstalled it as it was of no use to me.

I can't figure out how to put a shortcut on the LXDE desktop.... :-(