#@!$ Red Hat and Fedora anyway

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

To add/clarify a bit ...

I compared fresh installs of FC3 and Ubuntu. Both have OOo 1.1.2 and Gnome 
2.8.1. Ubuntu has a more conventional Save As dialog with an iconic browser 
right up front. FC3 has the Gnome "dumber is better" Save As dialog. You have 
to tell it you want to see other locations via a pull-down toward the bottom.

To correct this behavior you can to to Tools -> Options ... OpenOffice.org -> 
General and check "Use OpenOffice.org dialogs". It will then look like the 
more conventional Save As dialog (like Ubuntu).

So neither of them make it where the user can't store in other locations, 
including subdirectories. Dunno what Collins was lookin' at.

(OT: It appears the Gnome developers' design philosophy has them on an 
asymptote with zero. Where the screen of your computer will be at all times 
completely blank. Showing something on the screen might confuse some people 
and we can't have that.)

Michael