[Wolves] Your Feedback Please ! :) - Linux on my work laptop.

[Stuart Langridge]

> > The other main problem I have is that Openoffice
> > can't seem to get at
> > files on Windows shares, but if I copy them locally,
> > it's fine.  I
> > mount the shares using the "Connect to Server"
> > option from the places
> > menu, I could work round it by mounting the drives
> > in the fstab
> > though.  Does anyone know if Openoffice 1.9 fixes
> > this?
> 
> The 'Connect to Server' thing is a Gnome thing and
> non-Gnome apps, or more accurately, apps that don't
> use the Gnome load/save dialog can't see those shares.
> Firefox has been hacked to work with the Gnome dialog,
> but Open Office hasn't.

Ah, I do believe in current Ubuntu that there is a package called
"openoffice-gnome-support" or similar which does exactly that.

Aq.