I am not talking about the Win 98 look, but even with the gnome-integration installed buttons look a bit weird and there are sometimes black lines where there shouldn't be any. Why?
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Are you talking about the line behind 'basic fonts (Western) at the top? – user unknown Mar 3 '11 at 13:09
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1He means around the buttons, there is a lighter grey square surrounding the button. – Weboide Mar 3 '11 at 14:25
This will be improved in LibO 3.4 --see this before-n-after screenshot: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=42337
It's not using the standard GTK-toolkit - I think it has its own kit... The differences are subtle and many people doesn't seem to notice. But I think it's butt-ugly :/
Even with openoffice.org-gtk
and openoffice.org-gnome
installed.
You can try with a different theme in ubuntu to remove thick black lines though. It's an Ambience glitch.
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Do you know how hard it would be to fix these bugs or move to the standard-GTK? – c76c3r8c42b347r8 Mar 3 '11 at 16:09
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This answer is a bit wrong, as it does use gtk, just indirectly. The toolkit is called VCL, and it tries to mimic gtk, so it respects gtk themes, but it's imperfect (very). – RolandiXor Mar 3 '11 at 16:27
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@Roland, I'm also interested in @Toxicbits' problem - how difficult would it be for LO to directly use GTK+? – Oxwivi Mar 3 '11 at 16:37
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I'm not a LO developer, but to my knowledge at this point it would take a lot of work, because libreoffice still has a long way to go to free itself of its OOo past – RolandiXor Mar 3 '11 at 16:46
install openoffice.org-gtk and openoffice.org-gnome packages
sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-gnome
To make LibreOffice look and feel in a Gnome setting copy and paste this command into the Terminal.
sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome