OpenOffice/Gnome file dialogs

[Eric Feliksik]

Breezy is great, but I still have a big annoyance about OpenOffice 
(well, actually many, but let's be realistic and within the scope of 
Ubuntu for the moment):

The file open/save dialogs are still the ugly old openoffice ones! I 
know the openoffice.org2-gnome packages intends to fix this, and it can 
be enabled in OpenOffice-preferences/OpenOffice.org/General. However, 
it's not enabled by default. I heard in Hoary the reason for this was 
because of stability issues with the openoffice-gnome package.

Why is fixing/stabilizing the dialog so difficult? It would be nice and 
user-friendly if openoffice also used the gtk-dialog that people see 
everywhere.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts,

Eric