22 Nov
2012
22 Nov
'12
10:10 p.m.
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:24:49 -0600
From: kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net
To: trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Subject: Re: [trinity-users] Page layout problems with the TDE interface for LibreOffice
3.6
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
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