Messed up menu button with Libreoffice 4.4.0 and Plasma 5.2

Wu · 2015-02-03 13:53:15

Libreoffice 4.4 menus look like this when using Plasma 5.2:

It does not depend on the libreoffice icon theme.

Is there something I can do to fix this or should I report a bug (to whom? KDE or Libreoffice?)

Last edited by Wu (2015-02-04 22:24:47)

arojas · 2015-02-03 19:18:45

Switch to the GTK interface. The KDE interface for libreoffice has always been buggy and it doesn't look like that's going to change any time soon.

Wu · 2015-02-03 21:20:30

If I comment everything except gtk in /etc/profile.d/libreoffice-fresh.sh I still get the same menu buttons from the previous screenshot. Is there another way to select the toolkit for libreoffice-fresh?

Nvermind - fixed.

Last edited by Wu (2015-02-03 21:23:41)

wryfi · 2015-02-04 18:54:10

How did you fix it? I have one issue or another with every toolkit I try except for then "gen" generic LibreOffice one.

Using SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kde4, I get the same results as the initial screenshot. Ugly selections in menus, and no highlighting of moused-over menu items.

Using SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3, the pulldown menus are unresponsive to mouse clicks, and when I use the Alt key to activate them, the active menu item is unreadable (black foreground text on black background).

Using SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk2, I get the same results as using kde4.

Using SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen, I get an ugly and generic, non-antialiased interface. But this interface is at least fully functional.

Pretty disappointed so far. I was really hoping for a major UI improvement in LO 4.4, but it appears to be a mess in Plasma 5.

Wu · 2015-02-04 22:27:41

@wryfi

You are right, I was too fast to mark this as solved.

With gtk2 I get upside down check marks (✓) and some missing UI elements (like up and down arrows for the font size toolbar button. It's not completely unusable but it looks very ugly. As I said in the first post I'm not sure where a bug report should be opened.

AndyRTR · 2015-02-05 05:57:28

Best is always to recheck official "rpm-based" builds from AUR. If it's broken there then it's an upstream bug. If not our build needs fixing.

Broken menus can be cairo, fonts or Xorg related. Also remember it's a .0 release That's why we also the -still branch.

wryfi · 2015-04-13 19:11:21

The libreoffice-fresh-rpm package from AUR is more functional. It looks like SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN set to kde4, gtk3, and gtk2 all use the same toolkit, which appears to be gtk, but has fully functionally usable menus and UI elements; set to gen it uses the generic toolkit, which also works fine.

wryfi · 2015-04-26 16:22:03

Filed a bug

Last edited by wryfi (2015-04-26 16:22:30)

wryfi · 2015-05-13 17:31:49

@Wu, would you please weigh in on the bug report? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/44736

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#1 2015-02-03 13:53:15

Messed up menu button with Libreoffice 4.4.0 and Plasma 5.2

#2 2015-02-03 19:18:45

Re: Messed up menu button with Libreoffice 4.4.0 and Plasma 5.2

#3 2015-02-03 21:20:30

Re: Messed up menu button with Libreoffice 4.4.0 and Plasma 5.2

#4 2015-02-04 18:54:10

Re: Messed up menu button with Libreoffice 4.4.0 and Plasma 5.2

#5 2015-02-04 22:27:41

Re: Messed up menu button with Libreoffice 4.4.0 and Plasma 5.2

#6 2015-02-05 05:57:28

Re: Messed up menu button with Libreoffice 4.4.0 and Plasma 5.2

#7 2015-04-13 19:11:21

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#8 2015-04-26 16:22:03

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#9 2015-05-13 17:31:49

Re: Messed up menu button with Libreoffice 4.4.0 and Plasma 5.2

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