> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:24:49 -0600
> From: kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net
> To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net
> Subject: Re: [trinity-users] Page layout problems with the TDE interface for LibreOffice 3.6
>
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > For my LibreOffice remaster, I did a nice welcome PDF file with pictures
> > and instructions to put on the desktop of the LiveCD. I did it with
> > LibreOffice on my PCLOS 2012 TDE remaster. I wrote the file, saved it and
> > exported it to PDF. When I opened the PDF file, it looked right as it
> > should, but I wanted to change something in it. So, when I re-opened my
> > .odt LibreOffice file, all of the images that were cropped weren't cropped
> > at the same place and their width and height had changed. I had some
> > arrows to point icons on the pictures and they weren't too at the right
> > place.
> >
> > To check if it wasn't just a bug on my remaster, I opened the file on my
> > regular PC with PCLOS 2012 KDE edition. Te text appeared in the wrong way,
> > exactly as it appeared when I have re-opened my file on the TDE system.
> >
> > To see if it was a PCLinuxOS-related bug, I have put back the formatting
> > as it should for a part of my file, saved and re-opened it. The text was
> > as it should were I have re-made the formatting...
> >
> > All this to say that I think that there is some bugs related to the TDE
> > interface used in LibreOffice.
>
> Did you recompile LibreOffice with TDE support? If not, you are already
> using the GTK interface layer, which may be drawing items incorrectly due
> to the gtk-qt-theme-engine.
>
> I strongly recommend compiling LibreOffice with its upstream TDE support
> enabled; this is what I do for and Ubuntu and the integration works very
> well.
>
> Tim
>


As I am comparing it right now with my 2 computers using PCLinuxOS 2012 as a base, the one using KDE4 runs LibreOffice with the GTK2 interface (I can tell it from the open/save dialogs) and the one running TDE uses the TDE interface. It has the TDE open/save dialogs and I don't use the gtk-qt-theme-engine. It is installed but in the TDE control center it is configured to let the GTK2 apps use GTK2 themes, and not qt theme, so the QTCurve theme I use in GTK2 apps is a true GTK2 theme.

The 2 systems uses stock LibreOffice. It's as if the regular LibreOffice coming with PCLOS already has the TDE support enabled... Yes, it is well integrated and it looks better than the GTK2 interface, but if it is problematic on some level, I'd prefer to force it to use the GTK2 for now, if I can find how.

Thank you!
-Alexandre


OK the problem is solved!
I have removed the trinity-gtk-qt-theme-engine and it works just right as it should and I still use the TDE interface. Even if the option to let GTK2 apps use regular GTK2 theme was selected, it looks like it was not 100% compatible with the gtk-qt-theme-engine and LibreOffice and it created this issue.

Some more testing and it will be ready for release!
-Alexandre