Hi, Jean Pierre Rupp wrote: > El lun, 26-09-2005 a las 18:43 +0200, Rene Engelhard escribi?: > > - 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 > > This answer is valid, but I have a rebuttal: if one is using GNOME, the > rest of GNOME's applications will behave this way, not supporting UTF-8 And? I rarely use real GNOME apps. Many others who just use GNOME as a desktop do too. And I often see people falling into this trap.. And I am using and won't continue to use a non-UTF8 locale. > > - not everything is supported. AFAIK you can't open file over > > HTTP/Webdav directly using them. > > It works with everything supported by gnome-vfs, including FTP, SSH and > other protocols, one of the which happens to be WebDAV. The process to And I am *not* talking about gnome-vfs. I am talking about OOos native ftp and webdav support. And did you even try it? It does *not* work. Try opening such a URL. (i.e. ftp://ftp.stardiv.de) > Anyway most users do not have the need to use WebDAV in OpenOffice.org > or any other GNOME app, that's probably why no one even cared to drop a > bug report before me. or they use the normal dialogs. > What do you think now about enabling the native Desktop Environment > dialogs? As we see it doesn't work; and then we have to think about KDE, too (there's only one setting for both). I don't see the problem in enabling the Native File Picker if you want; especially since that is upstream behaviour, too. Regards, Rene
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