13/11/12 Pedro <[email protected]> > Hi Gabriel, Joel, all > > > Gabriel Risterucci wrote > > I'm having a hard time compiling libreoffice with gtk3 support (or > > rather, my VM is having a hard time :D). > > However, I did build gtk3 with the broadway module and launched an > > application (gedit) on my linux box, and "showed" it on my windows box. > > It's really only the display that goes to the browser, as I see my linux > > FS > > and nothing else. > > > > It's still interesting, though. If my LO build end anytime soon *and* > work > > with gtk3, I'll post more details. > > Please do. Thanks! >
Ok, so I built LibreOffice 4.2.0.0.alpha1 with GTK3 support, as it's needed to use the broadway backend it provide. The result is less than stellar, unfortunately. I don't know how well LO is written to support GTK3 yet, but there's a lot of improvements needed to make this usable: - Display's all whonky: menu items don't always show, have a black background, when scrolling a document the content disappear... - Windows/Dialogs not always opening/closing - Crash when using fullscreen functionalities - General unresponsiveness (on a local connection) Also, not that I tried this with GTK 3.4.2, far from the last version. However, even if the graphical part is fixed, the following will stay true: - The application runs 100% on the server. Think of it as an X11 application sending it's windows to a remote machine: only the display is deported. Execution, filesystem, all is from the server. - Shortcuts will likely be an issue - Response time will be a major setback: you press a key, it have to go to the server, then the server send back a display update to the browser. Running locally it's somewhat noticeable; over the internet that would be problematic (although useable). Don't know exactly where the fault lies, but some other gtk applications works well, so I believe it's a mix between broadway not being perfect and LibreOffice doing funny stuff to GTK. You can see it "in action" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quzoMEXRAhg. You might want to cut the sound though, my spoken english is far from pleasant ;) If I get around running a more recent version of GTK3 without breaking my system, and if it improve things in a way that make it usable, I'll tell here. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
