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blabj

Member

Registered: 2007-09-21

Posts: 19

OpenOffice w/ KDE file picker dialogs

I have OpenOffice 2.3 installed with KDE, and "export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde" (in /etc/profile), but I am still getting the yucky openoffice default dialogs for file save/open.

The KDE file picker rocks - since you can access any konqueror bookmark, including sftp://, etc.

Do I have to rebuild OO to get this?  If so, what build flag drives this?

Thanks,

BJ.

FizDev

Member

From: Canada

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 57

Re: OpenOffice w/ KDE file picker dialogs

Just to see... does it work if you run directly this command in a terminal instead of using the profiles?

OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde soffice

AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,642

Re: OpenOffice w/ KDE file picker dialogs

We don't include the kde fpicker. When patching OOo to use kde fpicker it is broken in many ways. So you only have the option to use either OOo native fpicker or the gtk/Gnome fpicker.

blabj

Member

Registered: 2007-09-21

Posts: 19

Re: OpenOffice w/ KDE file picker dialogs

We don't include the kde fpicker. When patching OOo to use kde fpicker it is broken in many ways. So you only have the option to use either OOo native fpicker or the gtk/Gnome fpicker.

Thanks for the clarification!  Many on IRC are thinking its all about the OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP option.. so I'm not crazy..

But thats too bad that its broken - I had this under gentoo w/OO 2.0, along with nice option to "Use openoffice dialogs" for those who wanted it.