Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 160432
openoffice.org doesn't use GTK2 system file chooser
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:07 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Galeon/1.3.21 Description of problem: Openoffice.org does not use the GTK2 File Chooser dialog when running GNOME, but always uses the OpenOffice.org dialog. Going to Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->General and toggling the "Use OpenOffice.org dialogs" on and then off again does not seem to work. I then removed and reinstalled the openoffice.org-writer and removed all .openoffice.orgxxx and .rhopenofficexxx configuration files and tried again, but it had no effect. I know this works on other systems, but it is not clear what OOo uses to choose between the two dialogs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-1.9.104-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install OOo 2. Start OpenOffice.org Writer from the menu. 3. Go to "Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->General" and verify that "Use OpenOffice.org dialogs" is NOT checked. 3. Try to open a file using "Open" from the "File" menu. Actual Results: The OpenOffice.org "Open" dialog is displayed rather than the GTKFileChooser. Expected Results: The GTKFileChooser "Open" dialog should have been shown instead. Additional info: Verified that this also occurs with the "Save" dialog.
Do you have accessibility enabled ? i.e. gconf key desktop->gnome->interface->accessibility set to true ? The gtk dialog cannot be used under those circumstances.
Indeed that was the problem, I disabled accessibility and the GTK dialog for OOo returned. Thanks! It seems somewhat counterintuitive that accessibility would *disable* GTK in OOo because you would think that accessibility would make the interface more consistent across applications, not less. It seems to me that this behaviour is itself a bug, since it doesn't affect other GNOME applications and therefore goes against the principle of least surprise. Is there an existing BZ ticket on this issue, or should I open a new one, or is it an upstream issue? Also, I must have had this enabled in FC3 before I upgraded and having it enabled did not affect the type of dialog for 1.1.3 OOo (i.e. I always got the GTK version). I'm guessing with OOo 2.0 that part works quite differently. Lastly, this should be a FAQ or somehow promimently documented for OOo users on FC4, where is the most canonical location for FAQs like these, i.e. bugs/issues that aren't blockers but are somewhat subtle and annoying?
Whoops, I accidently closed the bug, reopening for the moment until concerns above are addressed.
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=42429 the accessibility bridges in 2.0 don't play fair together