On 05/21/2012 01:10 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 05/14/2012 04:02 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Tim,
>>
>>    As with Libre has anyone looked at dialogs for OpenOffice? Apache openoffice
>> 3.4 was just released and it works great:
>>
>> http://www.openoffice.org/download/
>>
>>    It is much.., much... more responsive that LO and avoids a couple of nasty
>> formatting bugs that affect line/character spacing in LO. Apache OO does have a
>> nice GTK file browser by default (like the tde browser), but it would be nice to
>> have an integrated browser for AOO as well.
>>
>
> I talked with the Apache folks about TDE integration in OpenOffice. They said if
> somebody will develop and maintain the patch, they will include it in
> OpenOffice. My contact was with Ariel Constenla-Haile arielch at apache.org. I
> don't know if the old kde3 integration would just plug-in for TDE or not and I
> have no idea how to go about it, but if we can adapt the libreoffice one for
> openoffice, or something similar, that would be great to have TDE support in both.
>

For now, if you have the GTK2 libraries installed along with TDE, you can use 
the GTK file chooser with OpenOffice (dual pane, folders on left, files on 
right -- quite good).

To use the GTK dialogs with OpenOffice on TDE, in your bashrc:

export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome

The start OO and choose:

Options->OpenOffice.org->General, then uncheck

   [ ] Use OpenOffice.org Dialogs

You will then have usable file dialogs in OO. (the same should work in LO)

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.