#@!$ Red Hat and Fedora anyway

[Michael Hipp]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:03:35 -0600, Michael Hipp <michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Collins wasn't looking far enough down the dialog panel. Collins is a
> d----s----. But, as you alluded to below, Gnome is still a POS.

I can cut you some slack. That Gnome dialog is anything but intuitive 
and not what most of us have come to expect for a 'Save As' box.

I confess to being quite a bit perplexed by how all the big-name distros 
are stuck on Gnome when KDE seems - in almost every way - to be the 
superior full-featured desktop.

Michael