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Date:      Sat, 4 Apr 2020 02:18:10 +0800
From:      Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-office@freebsd.org
Subject:   LibreOffice 6.4 call for test and help
Message-ID:  <CAKBkRUweGSOc4hNpxqK2OPpFJb5DdFBP-vzbC1keSeqVRMy4Yw@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello,

This is call for test and help of LibreOffice 6.4 update.

My WIP repository is at:

  https://github.com/lwhsu/freebsd-ports-libreoffice

Now you can simply test this with ports' overlay feature by adding:

  OVERLAYS+=/path/to/freebsd-ports-libreoffice

to /etc/make.conf

Please note that the GTK2 UI backend, which is the default for <= 6.3,
is removed since 6.4 and now the default is changed to GTK3.

However, there is a (long standing) known issue of GTK3 UI backend,
for example, drop down menus do not show the "down arrow" and unusable.

Please see the comments starting from #21 of this ticket for the detail
description and discussion:

  https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224288#c21

Please help fining the root cause of this GTK3 issue, in the mean while,
you can start the LibreOffice with x11 UI backend by setting
environment variable:

  SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen

Or enable the KF5 (was KDE5 option) option to change to KDE framework
5 UI backend,
to test the other features work fine.

Thanks,
Li-Wen



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