Bug#630516: libreoffice: does not pick system theme colors

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

On 14 June 2011 21:46, Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
> retitle 630516 libreoffice: does not pick GTK system theme colors when -gtk isn't installed
> tag 630516 + wontfix
> thanks
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 09:44:30PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> >> pn  libreoffice-gnome | li <none>            (no description available)
>> >
>> > Do you have libreoffice-gtk installed? Does it change if you do? X resources
>> > afaik are not respected, but the Gtk theme is (if you installed -gtk), at least
>> > for the UI, not sure about "normal" fonts.
>>
>> No, I don't have the -gtk part. Installing it resolves the issue.
>
> Thanks. Then it works as expected, theme integration works for Gtk/KDE. That was
> the main purpose of why they were created in the first place :-)
>
> And you can force your plugin using export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk (or =kde) and/or
> OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome (or =kde).
>
> I ponder to close it as this will probably never be changed, but tag it just + wontfix
> for now.

I guess this can be closed. The libreoffice-gtk package is not as
large as the openoffice.org-gnome used to be way back so it's complete
reasonable to install it to have libreoffice styled with system
colors.

>
>> >> Hmm. As said above, I think this is more minor. This easily can be changed,
>>
>> No, nothing that's not default can't be easily changed in LibreOffice,
>> the UI is horrendous.
>
> You just confirmed it easily can be changed.

Yes, installing a package or setting an environment variable or two is
reasonable but setting something in the libreoffice options would be
horrendous. Still the package is not installed by default, nothing
appears to recommend it.

>
>> > For the same reason. It's the above + a wish that Calc derived from the "standard"
>> > black on white if your theme says otherwise.
>>
>> That's definitely not wanted.
>
> Huh, now you want to *not* differentiate from what calc chooses without -gtk?
> Can you please decide what you want?

I do know what I want. I want LibreOffice in the system theme colors.
When you write different things I respond differently.

Thanks

Michal