Hacked on Raul’s VCLPlug / gtk+ file-sel integration that michael announced earlier and got it going with a 680 build. Fiddled with it to update the various “save with password” and “edit text” field interactively as you select the various filters that can and can’t do those things, nifty!, and a few of the other things that the fpicker implementation require. Default file selector looks pretty stone age in comparison to the gtk one, though doesn’t currently look well in the filter drop down list for file->open with *so* many filters in it, and I still would like to be able to just to type a letter into the dialog and auto scroll to the files starting with that name 
gcc 3.4.1 progress with OOo is going well, major components of svx/sw/sc/sd/starmath are done. Got to watch out for these issues, especially the surprising copy constructor requirement for passing const references around.
Make sure you have a version of gcc34 which has this fix in it. The other common problem with the codebase is friends, where a private member function cannot be made a friend of something else, either make it public, or make the entire class the friend. An example of problem code is…
class A
{
public:
void works();
private:
void fails();
};class B
{
friend void A::works();
friend void A::fails();
};