[gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[walt]

I just finished building it on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines, and I'm
seeing a very annoying bug in localc on both of them.

When I do anything that requires the window to repaint, like scrolling
or zooming, the screen doesn't repaint until I start clicking on the
spreadsheet.  And then the screen repaints only in a rectangular area
under the mouse, about 3 x 4 cm.  I have to click on every part of the
sheet to get the whole thing properly redrawn.  Very strange, and very
annoying.

A quick test of lowriter doesn't seem to show the same problem.

Can anyone confirm or deny?

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:43 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just finished building it on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines, and I'm
> seeing a very annoying bug in localc on both of them.
>
> When I do anything that requires the window to repaint, like scrolling
> or zooming, the screen doesn't repaint until I start clicking on the
> spreadsheet.  And then the screen repaints only in a rectangular area
> under the mouse, about 3 x 4 cm.  I have to click on every part of the
> sheet to get the whole thing properly redrawn.  Very strange, and very
> annoying.
>
> A quick test of lowriter doesn't seem to show the same problem.
>
> Can anyone confirm or deny?

Haven't seen it specifically with LO (and I don't have that version),
but I saw a similar quirk on Firefox 4 on Windows 7 when Aero was
disabled. It was bad enough that I had to re-enable Aero, despite the
other problems that gave me. I've interpreted this kind of bug as
developers spending too much time using compositing window systems,
and not catching (or forgetting) normal window painting events.

-- 
:wq

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[victor romanchuk]

> Can anyone confirm or deny?
>
>

i confirm. apart of these 'painting' issues in localc, observed both lowriter
and localc crash during arbitrary pointer movements over menu items. it seems
all that misbehavior is related to x11-libs/gtk+:3

after an hour of tries decided to switch back to libreoffice-3.4.4-r1; 3.5.0 is
too fresh to use :)

victor

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[walt]

On 12/01/2011 07:44 PM, victor romanchuk wrote:
>
>> Can anyone confirm or deny?
>>
>>
>
> i confirm. apart of these 'painting' issues in localc, observed both lowriter
> and localc crash during arbitrary pointer movements over menu items. it seems
> all that misbehavior is related to x11-libs/gtk+:3
>
> after an hour of tries decided to switch back to libreoffice-3.4.4-r1; 3.5.0 is
> too fresh to use :)

Okay, I'm switching back also -- and for once I was smart enough to save the prior
version with quickpkg :)

I looked yesterday for open bug reports on 3.5.0.0 but didn't find any.  I'll
look again tomorrow and file one if no one else has done it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[Maciej Grela]

2011/12/3 walt <w41ter@gmail.com>:
> On 12/01/2011 07:44 PM, victor romanchuk wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Can anyone confirm or deny?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> i confirm. apart of these 'painting' issues in localc, observed both
>> lowriter
>> and localc crash during arbitrary pointer movements over menu items. it
>> seems
>> all that misbehavior is related to x11-libs/gtk+:3
>>

I have also rolled back to 3.4.4 due to repaint problems in all apps.
Initially I blamed this on nouveau but I don't know how to check if
this is the case.

Best regards,
Maciej Grela

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[Albert W. Hopkins]

On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 14:43 -0800, walt wrote:
> I just finished building it on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines, and I'm
> seeing a very annoying bug in localc on both of them.
> 
> When I do anything that requires the window to repaint, like scrolling
> or zooming, the screen doesn't repaint until I start clicking on the
> spreadsheet.  And then the screen repaints only in a rectangular area
> under the mouse, about 3 x 4 cm.  I have to click on every part of the
> sheet to get the whole thing properly redrawn.  Very strange, and very
> annoying.
> 
> A quick test of lowriter doesn't seem to show the same problem.
> 
> Can anyone confirm or deny?
> 

IIRC, libreoffice was released with *experimental* support for gtk3, and
have acknowledged that there are issues with the gtk3 port.  However
Gentoo decided to enable gtk3 support by default.  However it *should*
work as expected when built against gtk2.

-a

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[v_2e]

  Hello!
  There is no need to rebuild LibreOffice if you just want to start it
with different front-end.

  This forum: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6888618.html
gives a fast solution to the problem - just define the
"SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN" variable according to your needs. For example:

    SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen lowriter 
    SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kde4 lowriter 
    SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk lowriter 
    SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 lowriter 

I can confirm that at least with the "gtk" value the LO 3.5 interface
is pretty stable.

  Still, LO 3.5.0.0 has a much more serious problem in my case: it
cannot open several documents at a time. See, for example this bug
report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392907
or this forum thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-904036.html

  Regards,
    Vladimir

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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[Paul Hartman]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Albert W. Hopkins
<marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> IIRC, libreoffice was released with *experimental* support for gtk3, and
> have acknowledged that there are issues with the gtk3 port.  However
> Gentoo decided to enable gtk3 support by default.  However it *should*
> work as expected when built against gtk2.

Looks like the ebuild has been updated and now has -gtk3 by default. :)

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[walt]

On 12/05/2011 09:41 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Albert W. Hopkins
> <marduk@letterboxes.org>  wrote:
>> IIRC, libreoffice was released with *experimental* support for gtk3, and
>> have acknowledged that there are issues with the gtk3 port.  However
>> Gentoo decided to enable gtk3 support by default.  However it *should*
>> work as expected when built against gtk2.
>
> Looks like the ebuild has been updated and now has -gtk3 by default. :)

Yes, I just finished rebuilding it and all the painting problems are gone.
No hacking needed :)

Just be aware that some settings may get reset to default values and you
need to look in the various preferences menus or toolbar settings to get
back your favorite look and feel.  Not a big deal as long as you know
what to do about it.  All of my usual settings are still available but
I had to re-enable them before I was sure they weren't removed or broken.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[victor romanchuk]

walt wrote, at 12/07/2011 02:40 AM:
> On 12/05/2011 09:41 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> Looks like the ebuild has been updated and now has -gtk3 by default. :)

thank you for the update

> Yes, I just finished rebuilding it and all the painting problems are gone.
> No hacking needed :)
>
> Just be aware that some settings may get reset to default values and you
> need to look in the various preferences menus or toolbar settings to get
> back your favorite look and feel.  Not a big deal as long as you know
> what to do about it.  All of my usual settings are still available but
> I had to re-enable them before I was sure they weren't removed or broken.
>

i was unable to find ones; apparently everything remained intact

victor

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[v_2e]

  Hello!
  So how can I install LibreOffice 3.5 to test it? 
Portage does not suggest me an update to 3.5 version any more.

  Thanks.
    Vladimir   

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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[Dale]

v_2e@ukr.net wrote:
>    Hello!
>    So how can I install LibreOffice 3.5 to test it?
> Portage does not suggest me an update to 3.5 version any more.
>
>    Thanks.
>      Vladimir
>
> -----
>   <v_2e@ukr.net>
>
>

It's keyworded:

[-P-] [ -] app-office/libreoffice-3.5.9999

Since it is still a 9999 ebuild, I would wait a bit.  It is in some 
initial testing at the moment and it may be best to let it at least get 
out of the 9999 testing.  If you really want to try it, this should do 
the trick


echo "=app-office/libreoffice-3.5.9999" >> 
/etc/portage/package.keywords/package.keywords

Then:

emerge -u libreoffice

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)

-- 
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!

Miss the compile output?  Hint:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[Aljosha Papsch]

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Am Mittwoch, den 21.12.2011, 21:57 +0200 schrieb v_2e@ukr.net:
> Hello!
>   So how can I install LibreOffice 3.5 to test it? 
> Portage does not suggest me an update to 3.5 version any more.
> 
>   Thanks.
>     Vladimir   
> 

If you want to go deeper into testing, you may be interested to join the
bughunting session on 28th and 29th December. See http://wp.me/p1byPE-cX
for the details.

Regards,

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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[v_2e]

  Hello!
  Today I tried to install LibreOffice-3.5.9999 and it seems to compile
fine, but fails to install.
  Here is one of the error messages:

        /var/tmp/portage/app-office/libreoffice-3.5.9999/work/libreoffice-core-3.5.9999/bin/distro-install-file-lists
        Error: Failed to generate package file lists
               Have you defined DESTDIR?

  All other error messages are also concerning the missing directory
for installation.

  Is there an easy way to fix this without re-compiling the whole
LibreOffice? If I understand correctly, it can be installed to this or
that directory without re-compilation until I delete the temporary
files. Or am I wrong?

  Thanks.
    Vladimir
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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

[Fernando Antunes]

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On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:43 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just finished building it on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines, and I'm
> seeing a very annoying bug in localc on both of them.
>
> When I do anything that requires the window to repaint, like scrolling
> or zooming, the screen doesn't repaint until I start clicking on the
> spreadsheet.  And then the screen repaints only in a rectangular area
> under the mouse, about 3 x 4 cm.  I have to click on every part of the
> sheet to get the whole thing properly redrawn.  Very strange, and very
> annoying.
>
> The repaint and awful interface were resolved by forcing the LO 3.5 not to
use gtk3.
You can do this removing the gtk3 use flag and recompile LO or just set
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN variable as follow. I putted it on env.d directory :

/etc/env.d/99libogui
SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk



> A quick test of lowriter doesn't seem to show the same problem.
>
> Can anyone confirm or deny?
>
>
>

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