On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:06 +0000, Jim Higson wrote:
> On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 12:42, Jonathan Allen wrote:
> > Jim Higson said:
> > > > Can someone please tell me where has the delete or rename file
> > > > facility gone ?
> > >
> > > It sounds as if you might be using the new, GNOME-enhanced verion,
> > > which uses the desktop environment's native file chooser?
> > >
> > > You can force it not to do this (or to use the file chooser from a
> > > different DE) with the OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP environment variable.
> > >
> > > See this Debian thread:
> > >
http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2003/11/msg00154.html
> >
> > Thank you - this has fixed it. Do Gnome intend to restore the
> > lost/broken functionality, or do we always have to run with a bidge
> > like this in place?
>
> I don't think this can really be considered broken as such - the move in
> OO at the moment is for better integration with the desktop environment,
> which means using widgets like file choosers that the user should be used
> to.
>
> I quite like the new GNOME file choosers, the general philosophy of GNOME
> at the moment is to strip back the interface to make it as simple to use
> as possible. That means the filechooser isn't an all singing all dancing
> affair, but instead focuses on the core functions - choosing files.
> Renaming and deleting them is more the role of nautillus afterall.
>
> Anyway, the assumption by the OOo team that someone using GNOME wants to
> use the GNOME widgets is quite reasonable, afterall if you don't like the
> direction the GNOME project is heading in there are plenty of
> alternatives.
>
> Jim
BTW, another alternative is to use the default
OO.org dialogs, if you
want.
Go to the Tools Menu, then Options. From there in the left hand tree,
select
OpenOffice.org, then General.
On that dialog, click on the checkbox for "Use
OpenOffice.org dialogs"
in the Open/Save dialogs section.
Also, for those using KDE (not I), a new KDE integration project has
been started over at
OO.org:
And there's a Fedora package called openoffice.org-kde on one of the big
repos, which includes most of this.
yum install openoffice.org-kde