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,

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

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

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!

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

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.... :-(