Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 18573
OOo to implement use of native KDE filedialogs
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:35:32 UTC
It'd be great if OOo could make use of the following new (and cool!) KDE feature in the next version, after 1.1. >>> new feature: KDialog can now make itself transient for any X-app, meaning it won't appear as another app in the taskbar. This allows non-KDE apps to conveniently display the KDE filedialog, for example. It can also optionally output the winID of each shown dialog, for apps that want more control. >>> more info at: http://members.shaw.ca/dkite/aug222003.html and http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdebase/kdialog/kdialog.cpp.diff?r1=1.12&r2=1.13&f=h thx! Gabriel Gazzán
It may be very important for you but it's not a Priority 1. Reassigned to BH.
Please contribute patches to ooo.ximian.com which has desktop-specific linux features (gtk/qt toolkits, native file dialogs).
Ximian? Sorry, but isn't there a http://kde.openoffice.org/ page hosting a OOo incubator project pursuing KDE integration? I guess that would be the right place for concentrating all KDE integration efforts, don't you think?
Why not use the work done for http://openoffice.debian.net/ ? Native KDE file dialog work well in ubuntu OOo versions. Licensing problem ? JBF
This code is also in go-oo builds apparently. I'm curious if this needs to be updated for KDE 4.
It is quite another reason for adding support for KDE than mentioned in the original report. User who works in KDE is used to KDE file dialogs and UI KDE provides. OO uses completely different dialogs and it is hard to use it (not in general, but I mean: when you have to switch from KDE world). Remembering all apps dialogs UI is tiresome and I think there is no point in doing so -- in specific environment OO should use this environment dialogs. I know there are patches to achieve this but there are always delayed, and besides it would be more convenient to have OO-KDE-friendly out of the box.
*** Issue 18573 has been confirmed by votes. ***
The ability to set bookmarks on the save/open dialogues is something that we, kde users, love and use all the time. In OOo you can only select ONE default directory for new documents and this is not convenient when you are working on several projects at the same time. Kde dialogues are wonderful, some OOo derivatives use them, why the main project don't give us this chance?
I just noticed that gnome/xfce/etc. users have an option under Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org -> General that allows to select between OOo dialogues and the DE dialogues. This option is missing in kde, as you can see from the attached image. I tested both, the 32 bits and the 64 bits builds of OOo 3 on Fedora 8 (64 bits) with kde 3.5.10.
Created attachment 57263 [details] The missing option
Although I am a OOo advocate and I have turned 15-20 people into OOo users (all from MS Office), for my last projects I have been using KOffice (the KDE office suit) because of the file dialogs. There are just too many files in too many directories for each project to be restrained by the terrible GTK dialogs. Please implement this feature so that I could use OOo for _all_ my projects. It is ridiculous that I am using an obviously inferior product for my projects when the only thing preventing me from using OOo is something so trivial as a file dialog. Thanks.
Yes - please, please, please implement a decent or even half decent file picker. There must be hundreds,may be thousands of KDE users who wonder why such an advanced piece of Linux software does not have a decent file picker. Either write a decent native one, implementing favourites et al. or let us use KDE dialogues.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".