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I can confirm the SlackBuild script does not exhibit the transparent format dialog on a large spreadsheet.
1. Downloaded Slackbuild.org script for 4.1.3 for 14.1. http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14...e/libreoffice/
2. Changed line inside libreoffice.SlackBuild script to VERSION=${VERSION:-"4.1.4"}
3. Downloaded LibreOffice_4.1.4_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
4. sudo ./libreoffice.SlackBuild script.
5. Used pkgtool to remove libreoffice-4.1.4-x86_64-1alien.txz
6. sudo installpkg libreoffice-4.1.4-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz
Got a bunch of warnings about zero length htm files in
/tmp/SBo/package-libreoffice/opt/libreoffice4.1/share/extensions/nlpsolver/help
but they were indeed 0 length in LibreOffice_4.1.4_Linux_x86-64_rpm.tar.gz
put =rand()*10000 in cells out to HS:1200 - No dialog issue.
I did notice on the alien package that I would have to manually copy in the =rand()*10000 in cells for it to mess up. If I saved the spreadsheet then reloaded it, the dialog boxes didn't have an issue. Probably irrelevant since it seems to work in non-kde desktops.
I've compared the parameters used to compile the download from LibreOffice with those used by AlienBob.
LibreOffice uses -
--disable-kde4
--enable-kde
AlienBob uses -
--enable-kde4
--disable-kde
The exact opposite. I've subsequently asked this of the LibreOffice Developers and got this response -
Quote:
Hi there,
On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 21:10 +0000 wrote:
> Why does the autogen.sh that is used to compile the build, Linux - rpm (x86),
> version 4.1.4, English (US) have the flags -
Sure - this is because the rather old system we compile the generic
linux builds on (which needs to be that old so we can run on all newer
systems) can't feasibly have KDE4 installed. I tried to make a magic
assembler tool to stub the libraries to overcome that without success -
it's a bit of a pain.
> --disable-kde4
> --enable-kde
>
> in the file LibreOfficeLinux.conf.
Sure - and also --enable-gnome-vfs as well as --disable-gio is a
similar disaster caused by the same issue.
> Is it because in the standard build kde integration of LibreOffice is
> still at KDE3?
It's all to do with what we can get to install on a reasonably vanilla
CentOS 5 (IIRC).
These two libraries are all that comprises the KDE4 integration.
If your issues are solved with these out of the way, then I can split them off into a separate libreoffice-kde4 package.
These two libraries are all that comprises the KDE4 integration.
If your issues are solved with these out of the way, then I can split them off into a separate libreoffice-kde4 package.
I suppose this does solve my problem because then it uses GTK dialogs. I can't reproduce my original issue at all (of course, there's no up button or anything like that).
It seems like we've narrowed down the problem. Something in 4.1.x's KDE integration is broken, or there's a bug with Slackware's default KDE that is triggering the problem.
All that does is allow you to compile Java code. It doesn't provide Java itself.
I'm not convinced. In the options it says it finds FSF Java 1.5.0 at '/usr/lib64/jvm/jre'. Going to that directory and using ls:
Code:
bash-4.2$ ls -l /usr/lib64/jvm/jre/bin
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Dec 6 00:09 java -> ../../../../bin/gij
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Dec 6 00:09 keytool -> ../../../../bin/gkeytool
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 6 00:09 orbd -> ../../../../bin/gorbd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 6 00:09 rmid -> ../../../../bin/grmid
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Dec 6 00:09 rmiregistry -> ../../../../bin/grmiregistry
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Dec 6 00:09 tnameserv -> ../../../../bin/gtnameserv
bash-4.2$ grep 'usr/bin/gij' /var/log/packages/*
/var/log/packages/gcc-java-4.8.2-x86_64-1:usr/bin/gij
So, yes it definitely provides java. I also know this because I opened a bug report on it and I got what I said as the answer. I just can't seem to find it anymore because they reorganized the site. I'll look again and post it if I find it.
The good news is that Libreoffice 4.2.3.3 seems to be dramatically better with the file manager in KDE (and, yes, I installed AlienBob's libreoffice-kde package). The file manager is still slightly laggy after using it literally all day today, but it is very minor. I feel I can now comfortably use 4.2.3.3 with the KDE integration.
I've tried AlienBob's Libreoffice 4.2.3.3 packages. I've found that libreoffice to be slow starting up. With the libreoffice-kde package calc won't start.
I think I'll wait a few more weeks. Having read 77128 in bugzilla I can't work out where they've been rolled out to.
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