Openoffice.org 3 and filepicker

[Glenn R Williams]

On Tuesday 02 December 2008 09:51:56 O. Sinclair wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> > O. Sinclair wrote:
> >> Installed OOo3 and it runs just fine BUT the filepicker is crap and I
> >> can not find anywhere to get it to use the KDE filepicker as 2.4 did.
> >
> > "as 2.4 did"?  I never knew it could - and the file picker is the thing I
> > always hated most about OO.
>
> Menu Tools - Options and look somwhere for "use Openoffice file menus"
> or something and untick it. As I remember that is what I did once
> (removed 2.4...  so cant check)
>
> >> Anyone has ideas or sorted this problem?
> >
> > Only Dotan's brainstorm and bug reports for making gtk apps use the kde
> > file chooser - though I don't imagine that would actually apply to OO,
> > anyway.
>
> Nope since it apparently does not use gtk according to google findings.
> Drats!
>
> Sinclair

FYI, in 2.4 the option is in:

Tools --> Options --> OpenOffice.org --> General

In the area labeled "Open/Save dialogs", there is one checkbox labeled "Use 
OpenOffice.org dialogs". (Mine was unchecked by default)

Regards,

Glenn