They look just fine here on plasma 5.2.2. I'm wondering if this is a theme issue.

Same here: perfectly working.

This bug is real for me and persists. The other commentors did not specify what versions of plasma or libreoffice they were running.

I have tried every toolkit supported by libreoffice, I have tried changing various theming settings, etc.

In the forum post linked in the original bug report, other users confirm the problem.

Please re-open this issue and test it yourself before closing.

Finally we get a response. Filing a bug report then ignoring it tends to not go well.

As I said, it's working fine here (and for jiehong) , so there is something different about your system that's causing the problem. I'm still thinking this has to be related to LO settings and/or theme. When you go to Tool > Options > View, what do you see?

@Scimmia, @jiehong - are you sure you are both running libreoffice-fresh on plasma latest?

I cannot make the bug go away no matter what I try. I have removed my ~/.config/libreoffice, tried lots of different settings for GNOME Application Style in system settings, and many other things.

If you guys are sure we're all running the same versions of things, it would be helpful if we could compare other settings. My lists of installed packages are here: http://pastebin.com/CbLDF7Dx

What other info can we gather to compare?

@Scimmia, here is a screenshot. This is immediately after removing ~/.config/libreoffice, so these should be default settings. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B22XzHtEm36kSXlCbmJsdzIwczA/view?usp=sharing

The settings appear to be fine, but the style of that window is totally different than what I'm seeing. What do you have your GTK2 and GTK3 themes set to?

oxygen-gtk (see https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B22XzHtEm36kdWgtTWpqOFo3OXc/view?usp=sharing).

No matter what combination I try in system-settings, however, I get the same toolkit and theme. Is there some other hidden gtk setting somewhere?

My options for gtk2 are oxygen-gtk or Raleigh; for gtk3 oxygen-gtk or Default. No difference with any of them, even after logging out and back in.

Moreover, setting SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN to any of "gtk2", "gtk3", or "kde4" renders exactly the same toolkit and theme. The only VCLPLUGIN setting that changes anything is "gen" with its tiny icons and dark color scheme.

Actually that last comment is not quite accurate. SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN set to "gtk2" or "kde4" render identically, but "gtk3" is different, and unusable in different ways (the pulldown menus do not work at all via the mouse).

Try setting both gtk2 and gtk3 to "Adwaita" and set the fallback theme icon theme to Gnome. That's how I'm currently set. Then remove .config/libreoffice and try again.

Hmm, I don't have an Adwaita option for a gtk themes, nor do I see one in the standard Arch packages. I see a couple of references to various Adwaita variants in AUR. Which are you using?

Ok, I found Adwaita in gnome-themes-standard, set it to my gtk2 and gtk3 themes, deleted ~/.config/libreoffice, set my fallback theme to GNOME, and still have the exact same result.

This is the gtkrc-2.0 file created by KDE Gtk Config:

# File created by KDE Gtk Config
# Configs for GTK2 programs

include "/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
style "user-font"
{
font_name="Bitstream Vera Sans Roman"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"
gtk-font-name="Bitstream Vera Sans Roman 10"
gtk-theme-name="Adwaita"
gtk-icon-theme-name="breeze"
gtk-fallback-icon-theme="oxygen"
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_BOTH
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-button-images=1

Mine is very similar

# File created by KDE Gtk Config
# Configs for GTK2 programs

include "/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
style "user-font"
{
font_name="Oxygen-Sans Sans-Book"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"
gtk-font-name="Oxygen-Sans Sans-Book 10"
gtk-theme-name="Adwaita"
gtk-icon-theme-name="breeze"
gtk-fallback-icon-theme="gnome"
gtk-toolbar-style=GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-button-images=1

I'm running out of ideas here.

Eureka! I found the problem. To finally track it down, I created a new user account on my system.

In this test account, I found that libreoffice behaved properly, but that dolphin didn't match the rest of plasma5 (as it is still based on KDE Development Platform 4.14.8). I realized that I must have done something under my regular user account to make KDE4 apps match plasma5's appearance, and started googling, at which point I was reminded of what I had changed.

The qtconfig-qt4 utility allows one to choose a GUI Style for kde4 apps running under plasma5. I had changed the theme from "Desktop Settings (Default)" to "Breeze" after installing breeze-kde4. Setting this back to the default (which surprisingly corresponded to Plastique on my system) results in a reasonably behaving libreoffice, but of course any unported KDE4 apps like Dolphin do not matching the plasma5 style. (Screenshots: https://goo.gl/s4O87T and https://goo.gl/Q8YOG0)

I tried all of the different qt4 themes available in qtconfig-qt4, and while they each had minor issues, Breeze was the only one that was broken to the point of being unusable. I ultimately installed oxygen-kde4, and found that the Oxygen theme looks pretty decent next to Breeze, and maintains functionality in libreoffice.

So the real bug here is between libreoffice-4.4 and breeze-kde4. I didn't have this problem with lo-4.3, but I don't remember if lo-4.3 tried to use Breeze.

Another thing I still do not understand (possibly related, possibly another bug) is why I always get the KDE4 interface in libreoffice when setting SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN="gtk2". The gtk3 option also causes lots of problems, but I think I read somewhere that gtk3 for libreoffice is still experimental, so this is not such a shocker.

Alright, so it is a theme issue. Sense of sanity restored.

Assigning to some qt/kde maintainers.

Setting SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN to kde or kde4 doesn't have any effect for me in libreoffice-fresh-rpm, I always get the gtk style. Can you please post a screenshot of how libreoffice-fresh-rpm looks with the breeze-kde4 style (since you say that it works properly there)?

This is caused by the libreoffice-kde wrapper not supporting breeze features, see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348513
So there's nothing we can do about it

Some please file a bug to the LibO tracker.