Bug#330186: openoffice.org2: GTK/KDE file dialogs disabled by default

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

severity 330186 wishlist
retitle 330186 please enable usage of native fpickers per default
tag 330186 + wontfix
thanks

Hi,

Jean Pierre Rupp wrote:
> The default OpenOffice.org file dialog is confusing for the common user
> who is used to the file open and save dialogs of the desktop environment
> they are using. In my case the users are on GNOME 2.10 and they don't
> feel comfortable with OpenOffice.org's file chooser dialogs. They find
> it odd that they have to deal with different kinds of file chooser
> dialogs in different applications.

Yes, and?

> I myself find it odd that if I installed openoffice.org2-gnome I must
> deal with this file chooser that does not integrate at all with the rest
> of my applications. Even Mozilla Firefox now uses GNOME's file chooser
> dialog (Deer Park Beta 1).

They are built but just not enabled per default (as you say in the subject).
Just go to the Options and enable it...

There are reasons why they are disabled:

- need utf8-encoded filesystem. Not all persons use utf8. And if you
  don't you won't be able to open your files with e.g. the GNOME Fpicker
  when they have non-ASCII characters

- not everything is supported. AFAIK you can't open file over
  HTTP/Webdav directly using them.

Regards,

Rene