Bug#476556: openoffice.org: Selecting to show "All Files" in "Open" dialog fails to show dot files

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

severity 476556 wishlist
forwarded 476556 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88399
thanks

Hi,

Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> Package: openoffice.org
> Version: 1:2.4.0-4+b1
> Severity: normal

I believe you don't mean *.dot files but .foobar ones, right?

I don't think this is anything more than wishlist. And I doubt this will
be done by upstream in any case...

> Subject line says it all: additionally there's no option via a right
> click in the "Open" (file) dialog to select something like "show
> hidden files".

Ah, yes...

Regards,

Rene