On 10.08.2012 16:01, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
Hi
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 09:38:20AM +0200, Andre Fischer wrote:
Hi,
I am currently testing a fix for showstopper bug 120476. I am doing
this on a 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 (building install sets is an order of
magnitude faster than on windows.) During that I observed a hang
when closing the office. It is caused by the quickstarter: starting
OpenOffice with the command line option -quickstart=no lets me close
the office cleanly.
what do you mean by "hang"? A dead-lock? I haven't seen any dead-lock
there, what happens is that the quick starter implements a termination
listener that prevents the office from been terminated; you have to quit
the office from the quickstarter icon on the system tray; I guess your
bug in Ubuntu is that you can't find the icon anywhere.
Exactly. I am aware that not many people will start OpenOffice from the
command line and those that do are probably able to press Ctrl-C. It
just is an unexpected behavior.
Now my question: did we activate the quickstarter on Linux on
purpose?
No, the quickstart is activated if there is a link in
~/.config/autostart/ pointing to
$INSTALL_PREFIX/openoffice.org3/program/../share/xdg/qstart.desktop
This link is created/removed when the user checks/unchecks Tools
- Options - OOo - Memory - Enable systrat Quickstarter
I wonder how many people will find this switch.
If so, we may have a small problem at least on Ubuntu
12.04 and probably on any Linux that uses a GTK based UI that is not
Gnome-2: I have no quickstarter button anywhere on the screen, that
would a) indicate that the quickstarter is active and that b) would
allow me to deactivate it.
This might be only the crappy non-upstream Ubuntu; on vanilla Gnome 3,
as provided by Fedora, the status icons from Gnome 2 are displayed in
the Message Panel[1] on the bottom, this panel autohides, to display it go
with the mouse to the right bottom corner:
http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/aoo-gnome3-systray.png
This behaviour can be changed with some gnome-shell extensions that
allow showing the status icons on the top panel. For example:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/99/evial-status-icon-forerver/
https://github.com/MrTheodor/gnome-shell-ext-icon-manager
Are there other distributions that ship Gnome 3? Ubuntu ranks second
place on distrowatch and may be the only distribution that, with unity,
uses a window manager that is not very close to either Gnome 2, Gnome 3,
or KDE.
That means, that most distributions other than Ubuntu may display the
quickstarter icon. Maybe the users of other distributions can do a
quick search on their desktop and tell us whether they can see the icon?
-Andre
[1] I'm not sure what the technical name of this panel, but that's the
default behaviour in vanilla Gnome 3, as seen in
http://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/
Regards
