[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 45835] VIEWING: Disappearing toolbars

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45835

Alex <settantta at gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Platform|Other                       |x86-64 (AMD64)
         OS/Version|All                         |Linux (All)

--- Comment #3 from Alex <settantta at gmail.com> 2012-05-20 05:29:14 UTC ---
The problem has been identified. LibO still behaves the same way, however the
cause of the behaviour has now been isolated to the use of the gtk-qt engine.

As is probably the case with most KDE users, I prefer the look and feel of the
QT widgets, so to try and ensure that I could have a consistent look and feel
in most of my installed applications, I installed the gtk-qt-engine version
1.1-5.r5.1mdv2010.1 from the Mandriva repository. When I removed the package,
everything worked as expected. Problem isolated!

As I understand it, this engine is supposed to translate calls to GTK into
calls to the equivalent QT call. Obviously, this has not been happening.

It would seem then, that the code relating to the painting of toolbars
specifically might need some attention to improve compatibility. On a personal
note, I would far prefer the use of QT to GTK. Normally, GTK looks ugly,
although it has improved somewhat.

To reproduce it, it would be necessary to ad one additional step: Install the
gtk-qt-engine package. It might also be necessary to have KDE in use rather
than Gnome or other alternative desktops. However, if you were to have that
engine installed, and were working in KDE, I would expect the bug to be easily
reproducible.