Bug#284487: Disabling KDE/Gnome Filechooser is a drawback
[ CC'ing the two with complained before you already ;) ]
Hi,
Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 10:33 schrieb Sebastian Schaffert:
> I find the latest change to disable the KDE/Gnome filechoosers
> unacceptable, because this was a major advantage introduced in the
> previous openoffice.org upgrade.
They are broken. Try opening files with non-ASCII charcters saved bafore from
somewhere else.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=280638. This applies to
the Gtk Fpicker too. And it is *not* just about documents you create yourself
(you could use no non-ASCII-chars) but what is with documents you get?
.oO ( docs with german umlauts for example )
Additionally, the Gtk fpicker is broken in many ways
(no way to enter a path (well, there's some unintuitive strg-whatever
combination), ftp:// and webdav:// iirc didn't work (OOo can open files over
FTP or WebDAV and it was no problem to open it with the OpenOffice.org
filepicker)
So I disabled it per default.
> In particular with the KDE filechooser you benefit from KDE's io slaves
> and your personal system configuration. No sensible user would
> deliberately disable the KDE file chooser in Openoffice when running KDE
> as desktop, so disabling it by default is IMO unacceptable.
Then they can enable it.
> However, I see the point with using xfce, therefore I'd suggest to make
> three packages out of the current two:
>
> openoffice.org-gnome
> openoffice.org-kde
> openoffice.org-gtk
Where the packages containing the fpickers will still be unable to open many
older files. And then? Would you need to disable those file pickers then?
What is the difference to now then?
Regards,
Rene
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