<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 -- GNOME Summit: October 8th-10th http://live.gnome.org/Boston2005 "The Motif interface, with chunkier controls, felt more like a ghetto blaster." - Liam Quin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
