using floppies

[Chris Halls]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 12:26, Thomas Beckett wrote:
> 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 ;)

It is already hidden in there if you have openoffice.org-gtk-gnome installed.  
It isn't enabled by default because there are some problems for certain 
setups (see Debian's BTS for details), but you might like to give it a go:

Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->General->Open/Save dialogs-> 
  uncheck [ ] use OpenOffice dialogs

Chris