openoffice-bin-2.2.0 - can I get it to use gtk?

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faceman · Post by **faceman** » Thu May 24, 2007 4:00 pm

I'd like to use gtk widgets and especially the file chooser with openoffice-bin 2.2.

I know openoffice 2.2 uses gtk if I compile it myself, but for some reason the toolbars are messed up when I do.

I've got "gnome" specified in package.use for openoffice-bin. I figured that should do it, but no.

Any suggestions?

ikshaar · Post by **ikshaar** » Thu May 24, 2007 5:21 pm

OpenOffice-bin should use your gtk+ themes, yes. But it cannot use gtk file chooser.

Are you using 64bits ? if yes, you need a theme which include both 32bit and 64bit engines as OO-bin will need the 32bits one.

If it's the case, here a thread when i has trouble for firefox-bin... not a clean way to fix it, but better than nothing.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-550202.html

faceman · Post by **faceman** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:53 pm

I guess I'm looking for the file chooser, since when I built oo.o, it had the gtk file chooser. But since the toolbars didn't work, I'm stuck with oo.o-bin.

The binary package doesn't have the newer icon theme, either, which I think is probably related (but maybe not).

My gtk themes work fine (so do the widgets, sorry for the confusion), it's just the file chooser I want. So I guess the answer is no.

faceman · Post by **faceman** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 1:12 am

I've gotten this to build just fine on another computer with almost the same setup. Maybe it's fixed in a more recent version?

vermaden · Post by **vermaden** » Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:34 am

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# OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome openoffice.org-2.2.1-swriter

bl00dseeker · Post by **bl00dseeker** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:23 pm

where did you wirte that in?

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:45 pm

But it cannot use gtk file chooser.

why that ? (it's the same dialog like the one in firefox right ?)

I've been looking for a long time getting that to work / do

what's the limit ?

bl00dseeker · Post by **bl00dseeker** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:55 pm

i wrote it in the .xinitrc now, but is there any better place to put the variable OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP='gnome'?