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

[Richard Barker]

On 15/08/05, Stuart Langridge <stuart.langridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
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I just checked it out, it's called "openoffice.org-gnomevfs".  Unless
I'm mistaken it's in universe.  I've tried it, but Openoffice just
closes with no error message when the loading bar is about 2/3rds of
the way across.  Any ideas where OO.o keeps it's error logs (if at
all?) so I can try to submit a bug report?