Hi :) I dunno why but i think i keep mis-reading the original question. Also i think there are a few different issues in the question.
In all the distros i have tried you can "bookmark" folders, just as you can bookmark web-pages in a web-browser. However it's much easier to get to the bookmarked folders. In the file-browser you can have a side-panel (it's usually the default) that shows "Places" and the bookmarked folders appear in there. I used to always switch that side-panel to show "tree" so that it was like the "explorer" type view but normal users seemed to prefer the dumbed-down "places" (in Windows) instead even though they then grumble that it gets in the way and that it's a bit scary and confusing. In Gnu&Linux it seems to show useful stuff in a way that does make more sense to normal users. So nowadays i often keep the default "Places" view and just bookmark folders (or un-bookmark them when they stop being useful). When folders are files-shares on a remote machine, different desktop or file-server or something then the bookmarks don't appear until after that device has been mounted. So the next trick is to edit /etc/fstab (is that the right place for fstab?) to automatically mount such file-shares at boot-up. Errr, that is the next thing i am working on for our reception machine at work. Regards from Tom :) On 3 September 2014 13:47, Franco <fra...@w4u.it> wrote: > Hi, > > this is a well known problem affecting some releases of LibreOffice > (4.2.x) on some versions of *ubuntu. > You can see the files in the network shares but when you try to open them > nothing happens. > Same result trying to open them in the application, browsing in the "open" > windows to the share. > I personally verified this on Xubuntu 12.04 and Peppermint. > > There are some workarounds, I tryed some of them without success , other > are a little bit hard to implement for dummies. > You can do some googling for them. > > What I done was to completely remove the 4.2.x release, replacing it with > a safe 4.02. > Less functions, but it's working. > > Bye, > > Franco > > Il 03/09/14 14.20, James Knott ha scritto: > > On 09/03/2014 07:15 AM, John King wrote: >> >>> LO 4.2 and 4.3 series on Opensuse 13.1 and Xubuntu 12.04 >>> >>> I am presently attempting to move some users from XP to Linux on our >>> peer-to-peer network, but have hit a problem with Libreoffice and >>> access to files on other networked machines. >>> >>> When using LO on Windows XP, the file-open dialogue shows a 'Network >>> places' icon and users can access files on other machines without a >>> problem. I am trying to ensure that they get an equivalent experience >>> when using LO on Linux. >>> >>> However, the file-open dialogues of LO on the different Linux >>> distributions I've tried do not show network shares on either Windows >>> machines or Linux machines running Samba, and so users do not have the >>> same experience that they have been used to on Windows XP. If I use >>> the Kate text editor, which does provide a network icon in the >>> file-open dialogue, there's no problem accessing files on the same >>> shares. >>> >>> I know that if we access the files on the network shares using >>> dolphin/nautilus, then subsequently that network location appears in >>> the LO file-open dialogue. However, I'd rather not require our users >>> to do that before they can use the wordprocessing facilities; I simply >>> want the same file-open dialogue on Linux LO that they had on Windows >>> XP LO and MS Office. >>> >>> Is this possible? >>> >> One thing I've noticed is the "Servers" drop down list (top right corner >> of file open panel), where you can select Windows shares. I haven't >> tried it, but that may do what you want. >> >> >> > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
