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

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:16:38 -0500
> 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