Hi Rene Please see the IRC conversation below. It sounds to me that it might be best to disable the gtk3 plugin for 5.0.x. I don't think its ready for general usage.
Or, if you think it should be available, how about patching the detection to choose gtk by default, requiring SAL_USE_PLUGIN=gtk3 to manually enable it for the daring? Cheers Chris [11:34] <challs> Hi all. We've had a bug report in Debian that Pivot table creation is broken - can't drag and drop fields. I'm able to reproduce on current unstable .debs and also a build of master from last week. Is anyone able to test on a non Debian build for me please? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799251 [11:37] <bubli> challs: From the package dep list, it looks like whomever reported the bug uses gtk UI plugin -- can you double-check that and perhaps have a look if the same issue exists with kde4 plugin (if _rene_ didn't drop it from Debian, that is ;-)) [11:43] <challs> ah, lsof |grep libvclplug gives libvclplug_gtk3lo.so [11:44] <erAck> challs: there you go.. then d&d should work with env var set SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk [11:46] <challs> erAck: bingo, thank you [11:46] <bubli> erAck: Is that a known issue? [11:46] <challs> SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk switches it, and then it works for me [11:46] <erAck> bubli: yep, afaik there's a bug for it [11:47] <ahunt> (This is probably some weird interaction because of using kde, and possibly the gtk3 vlcplug?) [11:47] <erAck> ahunt: it's unrelated to kde [11:49] <challs> Found the bug, it's #93054 [11:49] <IZBot> LibreOffice-Calc normal/medium NEW EDITING: dragging and dropping selected cells doesn't work (GTK3 only) https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93054 [11:50] <challs> Sounds to me like it makes gtk3 unusable mostly for calc. Should we be enabling gtk3 by default at all at the moment in Debian? [11:50] <bubli> challs: It's Debian unstable, right? :) [11:51] <challs> caolan says it's not a regression because it never worked in gtk3, not sure I agree if gtk3 is supposed to be used in future [11:51] <vmiklos> challs: gtk3 is disabled by default in libreoffice-5-0, it's up to the package maintainers if they override this default. [11:51] <challs> bubli: yes, but it already got backported to stable backports and has bitten a number of users [11:52] <challs> bubli: and unstable is there to shake out bugs certainly, but if its going to produce more bugs than rene & I can handle and the developers consider it to not be ready, its probably not a good idea to enable by default [11:53] <bubli> but it doesn't sound like _rene_, that he'd be overriding the default and enabling gtk3 ... [11:53] <challs> yeah, its odd, but I've got gtk3 from his packages. I'll check to see what he did in the package scripts [11:54] <challs> Date: Fri Jun 19 10:40:22 2015 +0200 [11:54] <challs> make -gnome depend on -gtk3 now that it's enabled upstream if desktop is gnome3 [11:54] <challs> and [11:54] <challs> git update; gtk3 configure default reversed upstream [11:55] <vmiklos> enable upstream on master, not libreoffice-5-0, check configure.ac. [11:57] <challs> hmm, it entered branch debian-experimental-5.0 as well as debian-experimental-5.1 [11:58] <challs> ok so are there likely to be any issues if I recommend to rene that we disable the gtk3 plugin for 5.0.x? [11:58] <erAck> challs: no, should be fine [11:59] <challs> thanks, sounds like the safest thing to do for now then
