<quote who="Phil Scarratt">

> So you're saying that a file say somedoc.sxw on a samba share, if I 
> browse to it using nautilus and double-click to open, it should open in 
> OOo instead of spit the dummy (I can't remember the error)? Or is this 
> something that would work with a later version of OOo - say 2?

If the version of OOo you're using (depends on distro, version, and possibly
if you have OOo/GNOME support packages installed) supports gnome-vfs, then
100% yes. :-)

> > Coming soon in Ubuntu -> support for interesting mount options in
> > pmount, letting your users mount and unmount things like nfs, smb, FUSE
> > and crypted filesystems without root, but with strong policy (the p in
> > pmount). Nice!
> 
> Ahh, very nice indeed. Looking forward to that. That would certainly
> resolve the problem (I would think anyway).

pmount is love. :-)

> BTW, kudos on ubuntu. Multimedia setup still needs a little bit of work if
> it is to be used mainstream - but that is probably a linux thing
> generally.

Yeah, there are a lot of legal issues to sort out there, which restrict us
from doing this stuff *and* making sure it's 100% Open Source.

> It's not quite easy enough to use with all applications (eg skype and xmms
> together out of the box don't seem to play ball well without a fair amount
> of fiddling). I guess in part that's the applications problem.

Yeah, this is an ugly "fix the whole Linux audio stack" problem. We're
working on it. ;-)

- Jeff

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