Issue 119381 - Reactivate KDE3 integration
Summary: Reactivate KDE3 integration
Status: ACCEPTED
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Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: PC All
: P3 Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2012-05-19 00:04 UTC by David Rankin
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:35 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description David Rankin 2012-05-19 00:04:19 UTC 
The code that allows native kde3 file dailog use with openoffice should be re-enabled to support Trinity Desktop (TDE) as well as openSuSE that will continue offering KDE3 as a supported part of its distribution with the 12.2 release.

Libre has agreed to re-enable the KDE3 file dialog integration in its upcoming 3.6 release in response to request from the Trinity developer. See: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2012-May/031676.html

I would like to see OO do this as well. The ability to use native file dialogs with OO could make the difference between users choice of OO or LO as the default file dialog on both has long been inadequate. If TDE provided a patch, would you consider re-enabling the KDE3 dialog integration to support TDE as well as the major distros that have gone back to supporting that KDE3? If so I will work to provide the patch.

No matter how you slice it, the default file chooser that ships with OO is just plain frustrating.
Comment 1 Ariel Constenla-Haile 2012-05-26 01:27:01 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> The code that allows native kde3 file dailog use with openoffice should be
> re-enabled to support Trinity Desktop (TDE) as well as openSuSE that will
> continue offering KDE3 as a supported part of its distribution with the 12.2
> release.
> 
> Libre has agreed to re-enable the KDE3 file dialog integration in its
> upcoming 3.6 release in response to request from the Trinity developer. See:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2012-May/031676.html
> 
> I would like to see OO do this as well. The ability to use native file
> dialogs with OO could make the difference between users choice of OO or LO
> as the default file dialog on both has long been inadequate. 

> If TDE provided
> a patch, would you consider re-enabling the KDE3 dialog integration to
> support TDE as well as the major distros that have gone back to supporting
> that KDE3? If so I will work to provide the patch.

It all depends on two things:
* the patch is provided under the Apache License v. 2.0
* it can be built on the systems where we build the releases

It seems that enabling back KDE3 support and enabling TDE support might not be the same thing on the system where we build (it may supply by default a KDE3 version, but not TDE). We are not building in OpenSuse, and we try that our Linux builds work on most (still supported) Linux distributions.

Accepting the KDE3 part of the issue.
Changing the subject to include the whole KDE3 support, not only the file picker.
Started.
Comment 2 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann 2012-06-13 12:17:29 UTC 
getting rid of value "enhancement" for field "severity".
For enhancement the field "issue type" shall be used.
Comment 3 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:35:10 UTC 
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".