Bug 26986

Is not Kubuntu a dedicated KDE/Plasma distribution? If so, you would hardly expect to see the GTK3 plugin. The fact that all parts of LO hang on 'libreoffice-gtk3' is reasonable: it is built that way.

On my multi-desktop M8 installation, I see, running LO under Plasma
 "VCL: gtk3_kde5"
with both the following installed (not specifically by me):
 libreoffice-gtk3-6.4.5.2-1.mga8
 libreoffice-kf5-6.4.5.2-1.mga8        *** not the 'kde5' variant
It looks to me as if the query is really: "If Plasma is installed, should not libreoffice-kde5 [or kf5] also be?" (point 3). It was for me.

Can you confirm that when you installed 'libreoffice-kde5' (point 3):
- you did, or did not, uninstall libreoffice-gtk3
- that LibreOffice showed it in the About VCL panel (point 4)
- you noticed an improvement in the GUI
- did/do you have also 'libreoffice-kf5'?

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

I agree about Kubuntu.

To sum up, with fresh Plasma 5 on mga7 or even mga8a1, LO runs under Plasma 5 with "VCL: gtk3_kde5".
Packages installed by default are the 2 you mention: lo-gtk3 and lo-kf5.

Therefore,
When installing libreoffice-kde5:
- I can't uninstall lo-gtk3 as it will result of total removing LO.
- LO shows in About menu: "VCL: kf5"
- GUI is more beautiful (feeling personal according to me), but respect KDE Plasma buttons orders like OK / Cancel for example, Open/Save dialogs are KDE native version, Breeze theme is more visually appealing.
- I never remove the lo-kf5 variant.

In facts, I wonder if these 2 packages could be merged as they refer to more/less same backend?

For good understanding, in LO, VCL means for desktop integration. In fact, LO supports both gtk3 and qt to 

I think we could see this upstream bug resolved:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125922

Sum up: they talk about renaming with LO 6.4 VCL KDE5 into kf5.
According to comment #6, gtk3_kde5 should no longer be used.
According to comment #14, new VCL must be kf5 on Plasma 5 desktop.


I think there is a package misunderstood currently in Mageia.
Why installing lo-kf5 result of good VCL backend use "kf5" and why lo-kf5 results of use deprecated upstream gtk3_kde5? Sounds crazy.

could be related to https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24871

http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=1332213
http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=1369642

(In reply to Manuel Hiebel from comment #4)
> could be related to https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24871
> 
> http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=1332213
According to this revision, package was rename from LO-kde4 to LO-kf5 for Mageia. All that it does is simply use of Plasma version of Open/Save file dialog, while still use GTK3 backend for GUI.

There is a new VCL available from LO 6.3 called kde5 and it has later be renamed to qt5/kf5 according to this https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125922.

Today, upstream recommends use of new VCL named kde5/qt5/kf5 on Plasma 5 / LXQT desktops environments. It seems to be provided by Mageia with the libreoffice-kde5-6.4.5.2-1.mga8 package (Package A, for later reference).

But, as I previously said, today when you select Plasma 5 (or lxqt) as desktop at installation time, it is the wrong VCL plugin which get installed (that is named libreoffice-kf5-6.4.5.2-1.mga8 (Package B, for later reference).

Files installed by Package B: (Installed by default)

‎/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_gtk3_kde5lo.so
‎/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/lo_kde5filepicker

Files installed by Package A: (NOT installed by default)

‎/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/kde5.abignore
‎/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/libkf5be1lo.so
‎/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_kf5lo.so
‎/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_qt5lo.so

That's why when you install Package A (libreoffice-kde5-6.4.5.2-1.mga8), you get Libreoffice more integrated visually to Plasma, with correct theme and icons respects Dark/Light theme.

Thank you Manuel for comment 4; and Aurelien for the detailed (if confusing) fact-finding.

Assigning to tv for LibreOffice.

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Severity: major => normal
CC: lewyssmith => (none)

* mar. 18 août 2020 14:00:00 tv <tv> 1:7.0.0.3-1.mga8
+ Revision: 1614782
 - temporary force java-11-openjdk
 - make math subpackage just a superficial package for math launcher (rhbz#1776774)
 - add optional support for latpack
 - 7.0.0
 - Resolves: rhbz#1745771
     + drop the GTK3-KF5 VCL plugin (formerly subpackage kf5)
     + rename the current -kde5 subpackage (the Qt5/KF5 VCL plugin) to -kf5
        
Good.

Resolved Fixed

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED