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Re: [trinity-users] trinity open/save dialog boxes for openoffice

From: Denis Prost <denis.prost@...>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:32:31 +0200

Le 28/10/2010 19:16, Timothy Pearson a écrit :
>> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 14:06 +0200, Denis Prost wrote:
>>> Le 28/10/2010 13:48, John A. Sullivan III a écrit :
>>>> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 08:22 +0200, Denis Prost wrote:
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> does anyone know how I can make openoffice use the trinity open/save
>>>>> dialog boxes ?
>>>>> It used to work on my debian lenny kde 3.5.10 system with the
>>>>> openoffice.org-kde package installed but I don't know how to get it
>>> back
>>>>> with trinity on debian squeeze.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Denis
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I don't recall exactly what's involved as we've automated our Trinity
>>>> installations but I think you want the kgtk-qt3-trinity package - John
>>>>
>>>>
>>> thanks for your answer John.
>>> That package is installed but I still have the default openoffice
>>> open/save dialog boxes instead of the Trinity ones.
>>> I checked the openoffice tools menu options but found none that seems
>>> relevant.
>> <snip>
>>
>> If you look under Settings / Appearance&  Themes / GTK Styles and Fonts,
>> there is a setting for use my KDE style in GTK applications.  I thought
>> that had more to do with Window appearance and decorations than dialogs
>> but it might be worth enabling.  Just a thought - John
>>
>>
> You can't right now as there is no openoffice.org-trinity package
> available.  The problem is that OpenOffice is incredibly difficult to
> patch; the openoffice.org-kde3 version that I create for Ubuntu routinely
> takes 1 to 1.5 weeks to get working each release.
>
> Tim
>
OK Tim, no emergency about it, I'll wait !
Regards,

Denis
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