using floppies

[Thomas Beckett]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:09:57 +0000, Norman Silverstone
<norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> In most cases the first step in using a floppie is to mount that floppy.
> However, when opening or saving an attachment in Evolution not only does
> the floppy1 appear in the panel on the left-hand side of the window but
> the floppy is also auto-mounted. This is extremely useful and I wonder
> why it is not available in OpenOffice where it would also be very
> useful. Could someone please suggest what action to take to bring this
> about?
> 
> Norman
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The reason Evolution can do this is because it is a Gnome application
whereas Openoffice is not. Evolution makes use of gnomes standard open
dialog box that uses gnome-volume-manager (think it is this?) to find
what devices are available.
The development team behind openoffice are working on tighter gnome
integration so it is a case of waiting i suppose unless you know how
to go about adding it ;)