using floppies

[Norman Silverstone]

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 13:00 +0000, Chris Halls wrote:
> 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

Thanks to you and Thomas for your prompt replies.

Norman



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