OpenOffice/Gnome file dialogs

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:02:54PM -0700, George Farris wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 22:15 +0200, Eric Feliksik wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> >From a users perspective this would be really nice to have fixed for
> Breezy.  Our users at the College go ape when the file open dialog looks
> different.  This is also the reason I would like to see a gconf
> setting/filter or some such mechanism to only allow the Application
> installer (not synaptic) to see GNOME/GTK+ apps.

This functionality simply isn't ready yet.  It's possible that it will be
improved in the future to the point where we can enable it by default for
the 6.04 release.

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 - mdz