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Libre Office appearance
« on: October 28, 2012, 12:49:21 PM »
PCL 2012 / KDE with Libre Office 3.6.1.2 installed.

Libre Office has very basic Jave look about it.

Are there any packages that would transform it to appear more like other apps?

Its the only program that I can't get the menu fonts adjusted in size either.

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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2012, 04:39:46 AM »
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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2012, 08:40:00 AM »
The ugly looking of Libre Office has hopes.... when they use the appearance of Lotus Symphony.
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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2012, 04:44:05 AM »
I've uninstalled Libre Office and installed rpm Apache Open Office which, in my opinion, has a far better appearance.

I tried the various tweaks for Libre Office but none worked.
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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2012, 07:37:47 AM »
Quote from: linuxsnow on November 26, 2012, 04:44:05 AM
I've uninstalled Libre Office and installed rpm Apache Open Office which, in my opinion, has a far better appearance.

I tried the various tweaks for Libre Office but none worked.

Now that you have OO, how is compatibility with MS files, specially tables in Writer?  can you print in landscape?
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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2012, 08:40:21 AM »
I've opened both doc and xls files without any problem.

I've printed off to PDF in landscape without issue as well.

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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2012, 11:51:02 AM »
Quote from: linuxsnow on November 26, 2012, 08:40:21 AM
I've opened both doc and xls files without any problem.

I've printed off to PDF in landscape without issue as well.

Thank you, I will give it a try
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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2012, 08:48:17 AM »
I have to be honest and say that the one bug with AOO I have is that I can't get the menu font size to increase as with LibreOffice although AOO looks better.

I tried some tweaks suggested to me by the AOO forum but they haven't worked.

There's obviously something lurking that grabs the menu font by the ankles for both office suites - I'll have to try and find it.
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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2012, 03:06:56 PM »
I apologise if this is a silly suggestion.  Configure desktop > Common appearance and behaviour > Application appearance > Fonts.  In OO I have Tools > Options > OO > View set to scaling 100% and I have selected "Select user font for user interface."
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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2012, 04:04:02 PM »
I've been reading this thread with some consternation. The truth is that LibreOffice is infinitely configurable. You can set it up so that it it looks like anything you want it to look like. It can pick up fonts and colours from the rest of your system. And you can easily change the icon set.

It is possible that OpenOffice has fixed the problem with printing in landscape mode that has bothered some people in LibreOffice, but apart from that? And of course IBM's Lotus Symphony has some functionality that LibreOffice lacks -- but then LibreOffice has a lot of functionality that Lotus Symphony lacks. LibreOffice is after all a complete office suite, which Symphony isn't.
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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2012, 04:27:06 PM »
Bald Brick  I want the appearance and easy of use of Lotus Symphony, the functionality of LibreOffice and the problems with several important things (tables in writer, compatibility issues in .doc and .docx for those of us that live in a windows world, landscape mode printing) fixed.  And I don't even started with Impress.

I know it won't happen, devs seems to want to go ahead with more new things but they are leaving big holes in the way.
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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2012, 05:11:13 PM »
Quote from: Crow on November 27, 2012, 04:27:06 PM
Bald Brick  I want the appearance and easy of use of Lotus Symphony, the functionality of LibreOffice and the problems with several important things (tables in writer, compatibility issues in .doc and .docx for those of us that live in a windows world, landscape mode printing) fixed.  And I don't even started with Impress.

I know it won't happen, devs seems to want to go ahead with more new things but they are leaving big holes in the way.

Yes, I know that .docx files can be problematic in LibreOffice, particularly .docx files with tables. Luckily I don't get many of those any more, but I'd also like to hear the answer to your question: does OpenOffice handle them better these days?

This, however has very little to with the appearance of LibreOffice. If LibreOffice looks ugly it hasn't been configured right.  ;)
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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2012, 10:20:41 PM »
Come on Bald Brick   it looks like some Win 95 software  ;D   ;D   

I really like Lotus Symphony it takes more screen but it is more easy to use too
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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2012, 03:04:43 AM »
I have all fonts in Desktop Configuration set to 14 which works for all other apps.

In OO, I've set scaling to 100% and have selected Use System Font for Interface - this makes the OO menu font very small and I can get slightly bigger using a scaling of 130%

There's a bug somewhere, perhaps a package that should / /shouldn't be installed? 
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Re: Libre Office appearance
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2012, 03:13:32 PM »
Did you check the checksum of your download?  The problem is more likely to be the settings ('profile') folder.  Try renaming or moving it (with the software closed) and see whether you can configure properly with the new folder created when you re-start the software.
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