I'm rebuilding my Raring machine and decided to add the PPA for LibreOffice 4.0 beta. I actually don't use LO much at all -- my only need for documents and presentations is at work, which is pretty much a Microsoft shop with regards to file formats. But I want to force myself to switch.
In playing around a bit with LO this evening, I noticed menus had no shadows. This is truly irritating, and makes LO even uglier than usual. Take a look:
As an experiment, I tried removing the KDE integration package and replacing it with the Gtk+ integration package:
(The --no-install-recommends prevents the installation of libreoffice-style-tango. I don't want that to override the Oxygen style.)
Since KDE's Oxygen theme engine supports Gtk applications, I was curious how it would turn out. Behold, a slightly better-looking LO:
The tradeoff, unfortunately, is Gtk-style file pickers. Sigh.
It rather sucks that we have such on-going trouble getting LibreOffice and Firefox, arguably two of the most-used Linux applications, looking decent in KDE.
In playing around a bit with LO this evening, I noticed menus had no shadows. This is truly irritating, and makes LO even uglier than usual. Take a look:
As an experiment, I tried removing the KDE integration package and replacing it with the Gtk+ integration package:
Code:
sudo apt-get purge libreoffice-kde sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends libreoffice-gtk
Since KDE's Oxygen theme engine supports Gtk applications, I was curious how it would turn out. Behold, a slightly better-looking LO:
The tradeoff, unfortunately, is Gtk-style file pickers. Sigh.
It rather sucks that we have such on-going trouble getting LibreOffice and Firefox, arguably two of the most-used Linux applications, looking decent in KDE.
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