FS#46482 - [libreoffice-fresh] GTK3 support is experimental

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sébastien Leblanc (sebleblanc) - Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 17:09 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 17:26 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

GTK3 support is experimental. A fellow in the #libreoffice IRC channel advises against enabling it, since it breaks basic functionality with some features, such as the pivot table dialog.

Steps to reproduce:
- Add data to spreadsheet
- Create pivot table
- Attempt adding a field to a box

Result: Cannot drag & drop the field

As a workaround, setting the environment variable SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk disables GTK3.

Chat log:

<Me> Is the pivot table dialog broken in libreoffice 5.0.1 (fresh)? I cannot drag and drop fields into the boxes
<Me> This is on Linux
<erAck> sleblanc: let me guess, Arch Linux?
<Me> Indeed
<Me> erAck, did you need to know this?
<erAck> sleblanc: yes, because then the answer is easy; they enabled gtk3 despite that it is an experimental build option
<erAck> and drag&drop isn't implemented yet
<Me> Thanks for the explanation!
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 17:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#46315 
Comment by Sébastien Leblanc (sebleblanc) - Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 17:15 GMT
It seems that it is causing these issues:

 FS#45940  - [libreoffice-fresh] Font rendering seems "broken" in 5.0 calc.
 FS#45941  - [libreoffice-fresh] Black bar when launched maximized
 FS#46303  - [libreoffice-fresh] Writer formula editor freezing

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