Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 41806
GTK theme very slow under KDE
Last modified: 2005-06-25 15:20:49 UTC
OO.o now uses its native GTK theme support when running under QT environments (like KDE). So far so good. Unfortunatley it turned out that this leads to massive performance loss in UI. The UI becomes very tenacious. Also on my version (KDE 3.1.x on SuSE 9.0) all floating toolbars get a second window decoration from QT (see attached screenshot) which is inoperable. If you do not see any chance to make the UI more responsive and to remove those second window decoration please make VCL again the standard for OO.o 2.0 running under QT environments, even that I hate to say so :o(
Created attachment 22086 [details] Double window decoration
how sad ... there it's gone again in CWS vcl36
*** Issue 41618 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
A workaround is this (from es on issue 41618): 1) exit OOo 2) in a shell type (depending of the shell): setenv SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN false or export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=false 3) Start OOo from this shell The bug is still present in 680m77.
please verify in CWS vcl36 re-open issue and try to reassign to us@openoffice.org
try to reassign to us@openoffice.org
try to reset resolution to FIXED
*** Issue 44664 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Verified in cws 'vcl36'.
*** Issue 43879 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Verified in master m90 Build:8893 (internal build only sofar).
Can we please have the native look back under KDE before OOo final? The built in look is horrible, and forcing people to use it is a HUGE step backwards. Since OOo looks so ugly now, I'll be forced to look for another office suite if it doesn't get any better.
Hi, I saw the gtk theming was now disabled on OOO m91. For me (Redhat 9 running KDE 3.1-12 RedHat), the GTK plugin is about the same speed as the VCL one, and VCL is far less beautiful (thanks to BlueCurve, which make GTK and KDE apps looks the same). Altough i'm pretty sure Linux distributions will fix this before shipping OpenOffice.org with a KDE-enabled desktop, i would really like to have a way to force the GTK theme back (or was it a Qt one ? I don't know, i run the Bluecurve Theme). Thanks !
for me gtk theme also was very slow (and ugly ;) ) under kde, so this solution seems reasonable to me. the theme can be controlled by the environment variable SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN. for example, export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen will result in generic oo.org widgets export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk will force oo.org to use gtk widgets
For me there was no problem with GTK themes in OOo, and the VCL theme really does look ugly. There should at least be an option to use GTK themes, even if it is not compulsary.