[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 123595] Do not default to KDE5 VCL plugins under LXQt

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123595

--- Comment #5 from Michael Weghorn <m.weghorn at posteo.de> ---
OK, thanks for the update.

(In reply to Chih-Hsuan Yen from comment #4)
> The packaging philosophy of Arch Linux is somewhat different the Debian one.
> On Arch Linux, there's only one `libreoffice-fresh` package, which includes
> the kde5 VCL plugin as it's enabled at the compile time, and `kio` is just
> an optional dependency as it's not required to run libreoffice on other
> desktop environments. I don't think Arch Linux maintainers will move `kio`
> into mandatory dependencies if they don't want complaints from users of
> GNOME or MATE.

I understand. In my understanding, this basically seems to work as designed
then. If you have the required packages installed, you'll get the kde5 VCL
plugin, otherwise you get another one (according to the fallback list, which
currently is the same one as for Plasma -- not sure whether it would make sense
to use another one).

As mentioned earlier, I understand it's a little unfortunate since the kio
libraries are not needed at run time for non-Plasma desktops, so if you have
any good idea on how to properly address this in LibreOffice, I'll be happy
about that one.

Otherwise it seems to me like the only way to deal with it for now is that it's
up to the users/admins to install the required packages if they want to use
kde5.
Does that make sense?

Maybe, the qt5 VCL plugin might be an alternative when the
"SAL_VCL_QT5_USE_CAIRO=true" environment variable is set in addition, but I
can't really tell how well this works (i.e. setting
"SAL_VCL_QT5_USE_CAIRO=true" and "SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=qt5" via the distro).

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