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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 22 09:23:26 -0800 
2006 -------
I opened this issue because I am (in my copious spare time) the maintainer of
GTK+ on Windows, and a user complained that the GTK+ file chooser shows drives
that should be hidden. I then realized that the same probably goes for OOo's own
file picker, too.

Anyway, it seems that the code required to determine which drives should be
hidden is very simple: One just has to look at a DWORD value in the Registry,
which is a bitmask, one but per drive letter. See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/179221  That knowledge base article claims that
it applies to Win98 and NT4, but presumably they just haven't updated the
article text and it holds for current versions, too.

Yeah, drive letters are a kinda stone age concept... I don't know whether there
are other more modern ways to limit the browseability of network shares, or
mounted volumes. But anyway, as a first cut it would be nice to at least obey
the NoDrives setting.

How to integrate such a check in a clean way into the OOo OfficeFilePicker I
can't say. I could come up with a patch suggestion, unless you tell me you
aren't interested?

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