The proposal is to implement OpenDocuments ActiveX control (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms454230) to provide seamless IE integration for ODF files on SharePoint server via WebDAV. This allows ODF documents on SharePoint server to be associated with LibreOffice, which will open them using WebDAV according to user-chosen option (read/edit), on par with MS Office documents support that SharePoint provides.
Patch submitted for review: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/29608
Isn't activeX deprecated with 5.2? (see https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.2, Feature removal / deprecation part)
@Julien: what was removed was the user-aimed control for displaying documents in IE, which was unmaintained long before web browsers decided to call plugins evil — and it was increasingly irrelevant as most casual users use other browsers, so it made sense to remove it. This is a different feature, aimed at business users, which leverages an MS SharePoint control that happens to be implemented using ActiveX (y’know, by the “old” Microsoft).
Mike Kaganski committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3de2e8a32bead23229b263f21d4dff13dc695e4d tdf#103058: Implement OpenDocuments ActiveX control It will be available in 5.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Mike Kaganski committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=88829fd914105a0837ee41d3f00f9178228c19cf tdf#103058: allow optional registration for MS ProgIDs It will be available in 5.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Mike Kaganski committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=aa4e06c67dbe414ae26b757d6968eb27b5ebeb99 tdf#103058: use RegQueryValueEx instead of RegGetValue It will be available in 5.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Polite ping: is this bug fixed? if so, please close it as RESOLVED FIXED
The control is implemented. It's not included into distribution, though. I suppose that until it's necessary, let it stay this way. Fixed.