#@!$ Red Hat and Fedora anyway

[Net Llama!]

On 12/04/2004 06:23 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> Now I know why I have always avoided Red Hat systems.
> 
> As a part of a local project for training new Linux Users, I agreed to
> modify an OpenOffice for beginners manual. The author of the manual
> has only worked on windows, so I agreed to add instructions for File
> Save As, etc., for Linux users. Lo and behold, the #$@!ing ___wipes at
> Fedora have seen fit to replace the OO Save As dialog box with some
> non-standard piece of crap that only allows the user to save in the
> home directory. Not even possible to save into one of your
> subdirectories!
> 
> I should have know better. Pitch theis POS. Next distro, please.
> 

That has absolutely nothing to do with Redhat or Fedora.  That's the new 
gtk2 widget for file management which you get automatically for any app 
that is built against gtk2.  You'll get that in Mozilla too.

If you want to start cursing someone, curse the gtk2 people.

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