On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 13:25, Marc Schwartz wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:06 +0000, Jim Higson wrote: > > On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 12:42, Jonathan Allen wrote: > > > Jim Higson said: > > > > > Can someone please tell me where has the delete or rename file > > > > > facility gone ? > > > > > > > > It sounds as if you might be using the new, GNOME-enhanced verion, > > > > which uses the desktop environment's native file chooser? > > > > > > > > You can force it not to do this (or to use the file chooser from a > > > > different DE) with the OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP environment variable. > > > > > > > > See this Debian thread: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2003/11/msg00154.html > > > > > > Thank you - this has fixed it. Do Gnome intend to restore the > > > lost/broken functionality, or do we always have to run with a bidge > > > like this in place? > > > > I don't think this can really be considered broken as such - the move in > > OO at the moment is for better integration with the desktop environment, > > which means using widgets like file choosers that the user should be used > > to. > > > > I quite like the new GNOME file choosers, the general philosophy of GNOME > > at the moment is to strip back the interface to make it as simple to use > > as possible. That means the filechooser isn't an all singing all dancing > > affair, but instead focuses on the core functions - choosing files. > > Renaming and deleting them is more the role of nautillus afterall. > > > > Anyway, the assumption by the OOo team that someone using GNOME wants to > > use the GNOME widgets is quite reasonable, afterall if you don't like the > > direction the GNOME project is heading in there are plenty of > > alternatives. > > > > Jim > > BTW, another alternative is to use the default OO.org dialogs, if you > want. > > Go to the Tools Menu, then Options. From there in the left hand tree, > select OpenOffice.org, then General. > > On that dialog, click on the checkbox for "Use OpenOffice.org dialogs" > in the Open/Save dialogs section. > > Also, for those using KDE (not I), a new KDE integration project has > been started over at OO.org: And there's a Fedora package called openoffice.org-kde on one of the big repos, which includes most of this. yum install openoffice.org-kde
