https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166128
Bug ID: 166128
Summary: Recreate splash screen with VCL weld
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
LibreOffice splash screen uses a custom widget for creating splash screen. It
is good to implement something better using VCL weld mechanism and a UI file
designed in Glade.
Why:
The current implementation has various drawbacks:
1. It does not always scale to the same size as the main LibreOffice Window.
2. The style of the progress bar is a bit different from other UI elements,
looks mostly like Gen interface.
3. It needs custom paint code.
4. It does not conform to the dark/light theme.
5. It is not easily localize-able.
6. It is a separate binary (oosplash)
Code pointers:
Most of the code for the current implementation resides in:
desktop/source/splash/splash.cxx
The SplashScreenWindow class has an custom paint method,
SplashScreenWindow::Paint(), which draws the bitmap, and also the progress. A
new UI file is needed for this purpose. You may look into some dialogs like tip
of the day to get some insight:
Easyhacking: How to create a new “Tip-Of-The-Day” dialog
https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2019/06/26/how-to-create-a-new-dialog/
It would be interesting to avoid a separate binary, but it is fine to keep
things as is, and just change to use .ui file.
You may also use ideas from a minimal weld application here:
VCL weld: create LibreOffice GUI from design files
https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/11/22/vcl-weld-create-libreoffice-gui-from-design-files/
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