[ebuild] OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 w/ KDE widget integration

zez

I made a new ebuild for OOo after finding on dot.kde.org that the KDE team released a binary package of OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 that uses the Native Widget Framework to emulate KDE's look and feel. This binary package includes OOo 1.1.1, KDE widget emulation, and KDE-ish icons to match. This is my first ebuild (based off the official openoffice-bin ebuild of course), but it seems to work well enough. Just don't expect this thing to be stable, as both the ebuild and the program build are probably rather shaky. Hopefully you people can have some fun with it as it seems pretty spiffy

The ebuild currently blocks both openoffice and openoffice-bin, and it also requires qt/kde.

http://mysite.verizon.net/res0d8wx/openoffice-kde-bin-1.1.1.ebuild.txt
(make sure to remove the '.txt' at the end of the filename)

Also, here's a screenshot if anybody wants to see how it looks on a gentoo desktop:
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0d8wx/oo-kde.png

Note: In the portage tree, make sure to copy the 'ooffice-wrapper-1.3' file from /usr/portage/apps-office/openoffice-bin/files/1.1.1/ to .../openoffice-kde-bin/files/1.1.1 in your portage overlay directory. If you don't, you won't be able to start OOo using the entries in /usr/bin.

lrandall · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 9 Location: South Africa

Wow, you're quite quick. I came here after the announcement on the dot to see if anyone had tried it out , and already there is an ebuild! Thanks a lot.

Will try it out when I get home later...

Turiya · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 24

Hmm, I can't get it to work. it exits with:

zez · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 1:43 pm Post subject:

Odd, it looks like I might've forgotten an dependency in the ebuild? I'll see what's up when I get home.

EDIT: Yup, looks like I forgot to add the startup-notification library as a dependency. The ebuild is updated now.

Turiya · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2003 Posts: 24

Thalion · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject:

I can't download the ebuild or view the screenshot - it keeps telling me "connection refused". Or is it because too many people are trying to get it? =)

F16PilotJumper · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject:

That's amazing. I have my own, already-compiled version of OOo 1.1.1 installed...is there any way to do this from source, or modify what i already have to use it?

PieterB · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:17 pm Post subject:

Are there problems (block) with ximian-openoffice? Because a version for kde and one specially for gnome would be nice....

I will try the ebuild now ;-)

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SPW · Guru Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Lëtzebuerg

Wow! This is amazing. I always wanted OOo to have the look and feel of KDE. Your screenshot looks fabulous. I hope future versions of OOo will integrate well with KDE (the NWF -Native Widget Framework- project sounds interesting) when you have kde in your use flags. But this is a nice starting point. Well done zez!

I'm currently downloading OOo_1.1.1-1_kde_LinuxIntel_Install.tar.gz
I hope that it will work

EDIT: it works! but when using Keramik theme it looks less well integrated than with Plastik. Hopefully it will be able to adapt to the chosen theme one day... :lol:

gmichels · Guru Joined: 20 Jun 2003 Posts: 480 Location: Brazil

Sweet, can't wait to use it!

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Your ebuild works fine for me. Have you considered submitting it to bugs.gentoo.org?

I do notice one thing -- both in your screenshot and on my computer, it looks as if the fonts used for the OpenOffice menus are smaller than the menu fonts for other KDE apps. Any idea why?
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zez · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:27 pm Post subject:

Yea, I think OOo still handles fonts somewhat on its own as it doesn't actually use QT for the interface, just emulates the look. There's a way to overwrite the interface font if you want to change it (there's a howto on www.openoffice.org somewhere).

Maybe if not many bugs crop up in the ebuild, I'll submit to bugs.gentoo.org.

shm · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject:

zez · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 10:25 pm Post subject:

shm · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:42 pm Post subject:

SPW · Guru Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Lëtzebuerg

I think this ebuild is really good enough to be included in portage. There may be some issues, but it should be included as a "masked" package.

SPW · Guru Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Lëtzebuerg

For those who complain about too small fonts: Open OOo and go to "Tools -> Options -> Openoffice.org -> View -> Display -> Scale"
I set mine to 150% and now fonts are as big as normal KDE fonts

EDIT: I reread this thread once again and saw that I overlooked the fact that zez had already given this advice too :oops:

Ian · Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 1:53 pm Post subject:

This is a very cool addition to KDE now, even if it's not 100% done it still looks very good.

The only problem I'm having is with only having a binary pacakge, and not a source package. I've yet to learn how to make my own ebuilds, and with four AP tests coming up in two weeks, this really isn't the time for me to learn. I've noticed that with the binary only package, it takes MUCH longer to load than when I compiled OOo sepcifically for my machine. Sure, it took two days, but it's worth it for me.

So, my only request for this is that a source ebuild be made too. If no one can do it in about three weeks, I guess it'll be as good a time as any to learn a bit about portage and ebuilds.

SPW · Guru Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Lëtzebuerg

I agree that the binary OOo with KDE widgets is MUCH slower than ordinary OOo compiled from source. But I think this has less to do with the fact that it's a binary than with KDE implementation which makes it slower. Because I have always used OOo binaries instead of compiling from source, because I have not noticed a speed increase and compiling OOo is a pain.

zez · Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject:

I was reading through bugs.gentoo.org and saw that the gentoo devs expect the Native Widget Framework to be included in future releases of OpenOffice.org, making this ebuild more of a stop-gap. In this light, this ebuild probably shouldn't be included in portage because it would demand a whole new application-entry which would only be useful for maybe a few months until the newer of OOo come out. Eventually this ebuild shouldn't even be needed because everyone will be able to get this same functionality out of the regular openoffice/openoffice-bin ebuilds.

And yea, the speed in this build is noticibly slower than even the 1.1.0-bin release. I don't mind too much as it's still a work in progress.

Finally, on dot.kde.org they had a link to this page if you want to compile from source:

http://kde.openoffice.org/kde-icons/index.html#download

SPW · Guru Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 318 Location: Lëtzebuerg

Interesting...
I don't think that it will make a big difference to compile from source, and it will take hours and hours.
Even if your ebuild will not be needed for future versions of OOo, it was still very nice and helpful for some people. I'm glad to have a nicer OOo now.

soaringcondor · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 103

Awsome - the ebuild works fine here. It is noticably slower than the old OpenOffice (I was using the openoffice-bin ebuild before) but it looks so much nicer with other things on the desktop.

romvinot · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2004 Posts: 51

Zez :
And how will it be integrated to the standard OpenOffice ebuild ? Will it use the "kde" USE flags ? Will it be available also in the binary ebuild ? Do you have any timeframe ?
(Yes, lots of questions).

romvinot · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2004 Posts: 51

I found the entry in bugzilla. Not a lot of info right now :
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44425

30726 · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 1501

What about an ebuild that adds GTK+ through NWF? I haven't seen one around yet