Disable gtk3 plugin?
Hi Rene
Please see the IRC conversation below. It sounds to me that it might be
best to disable the gtk3 plugin for 5.0.x. I don't think its ready for
general usage.
Or, if you think it should be available, how about patching the
detection to choose gtk by default, requiring SAL_USE_PLUGIN=gtk3 to
manually enable it for the daring?
Cheers
Chris
[11:34] <challs> Hi all. We've had a bug report in Debian that Pivot
table creation is broken - can't drag and drop fields. I'm able to
reproduce on current unstable .debs and also a build of master from last
week. Is anyone able to test on a non Debian build for me please?
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799251
[11:37] <bubli> challs: From the package dep list, it looks like
whomever reported the bug uses gtk UI plugin -- can you double-check
that and perhaps have a look if the same issue exists with kde4 plugin
(if _rene_ didn't drop it from Debian, that is ;-))
[11:43] <challs> ah, lsof |grep libvclplug gives libvclplug_gtk3lo.so
[11:44] <erAck> challs: there you go.. then d&d should work with env var
set SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk
[11:46] <challs> erAck: bingo, thank you
[11:46] <bubli> erAck: Is that a known issue?
[11:46] <challs> SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk switches it, and then it works for me
[11:46] <erAck> bubli: yep, afaik there's a bug for it
[11:47] <ahunt> (This is probably some weird interaction because of
using kde, and possibly the gtk3 vlcplug?)
[11:47] <erAck> ahunt: it's unrelated to kde
[11:49] <challs> Found the bug, it's #93054
[11:49] <IZBot> LibreOffice-Calc normal/medium NEW EDITING: dragging and
dropping selected cells doesn't work (GTK3 only)
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93054
[11:50] <challs> Sounds to me like it makes gtk3 unusable mostly for
calc. Should we be enabling gtk3 by default at all at the moment in Debian?
[11:50] <bubli> challs: It's Debian unstable, right? :)
[11:51] <challs> caolan says it's not a regression because it never
worked in gtk3, not sure I agree if gtk3 is supposed to be used in future
[11:51] <vmiklos> challs: gtk3 is disabled by default in
libreoffice-5-0, it's up to the package maintainers if they override
this default.
[11:51] <challs> bubli: yes, but it already got backported to stable
backports and has bitten a number of users
[11:52] <challs> bubli: and unstable is there to shake out bugs
certainly, but if its going to produce more bugs than rene & I can
handle and the developers consider it to not be ready, its probably not
a good idea to enable by default
[11:53] <bubli> but it doesn't sound like _rene_, that he'd be
overriding the default and enabling gtk3 ...
[11:53] <challs> yeah, its odd, but I've got gtk3 from his packages.
I'll check to see what he did in the package scripts
[11:54] <challs> Date: Fri Jun 19 10:40:22 2015 +0200
[11:54] <challs> make -gnome depend on -gtk3 now that it's enabled
upstream if desktop is gnome3
[11:54] <challs> and
[11:54] <challs> git update; gtk3 configure default reversed upstream
[11:55] <vmiklos> enable upstream on master, not libreoffice-5-0, check
configure.ac.
[11:57] <challs> hmm, it entered branch debian-experimental-5.0 as well
as debian-experimental-5.1
[11:58] <challs> ok so are there likely to be any issues if I recommend
to rene that we disable the gtk3 plugin for 5.0.x?
[11:58] <erAck> challs: no, should be fine
[11:59] <challs> thanks, sounds like the safest thing to do for now then
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