Bug#961473: libreoffice-kde5: The libreoffice templates in /usr/share/templates are set to Letter page size

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

reassign 961473 libreoffice-kde5,libreoffice-plasma
severity 961473 minor
tag 961473 + upstream
thanks

Hi,

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:43:31PM +0200, Steve Russell wrote:
> Package: libreoffice-kde5
> Version: 1:6.1.5-3+deb10u6

Even if it was a bug, we for sure won't change the default in a stable
release (and all this stuff moved to libreoffice-plasma in newer
releases anyway.)

> When I create a new LibreOffice Writer document using the Create New function in Dolphin, the
> new document has the page size set to Letter. When I attempt to print this document it fails
> because my printer does not have Letter size paper.

And you can't just set it to A4? This is a *template*, not necessarily
something you can just use? That's the sense of a template, to edit it.

And I'd argue it is minor, and not normal.

> I would expect that the installer should detect whether my localization settings are using Letter
> or A4 and install the appropriate template for this paper size.

There is no installer. (Well, the installer isn't involved here.)

These files are contained *in the package* (libreoffice-common, even
language-independent, and you can*t just have multiple versions there.)
and just installs from upstream:

        # install files for "create new" ...
        mkdir -p $(PKGDIR)-plasma/usr/share/templates/.source
        for i in $(SOURCE_TREE)/extras/source/shellnew/*; do \
                cp $$i $(PKGDIR)-plasma/usr/share/templates/.source/`basename $$i`; \
        done


Hovever you do it so you do it wrong, although I agree with you that A4 would
be a far more sensible default...

(The other alternative would be to remove that Create New... support,
people should just use File->New in LibreOffice, imho)

Regards,

Rene