[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 137159] Harmonize UI in Options-LibreOffice-View when works a Skia black list

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137159

--- Comment #4 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Luboš Luňák from comment #3)
> - The option is called 'force'. The opposite of forcing is not forcing the
> other way, it's letting things be. So there's no UI problem.
> 
> - If LO detects the HW is problematic, then it just should be disabled and
> an easy checkbox to ignore that is just a recipe for problems. If the user
> is knowledgeable enough there's the expert configuration or SAL_FORCESKIA,
> and if the user is not knowledgeable then they shouldn't be messing with
> things.
> 
> - How would that actually work technically? Let's stay LO starts and detects
> problematic HW, but the option is unchecked. How will LO know whether the
> option is unchecked because you unchecked it or because it's never been
> checked? How do options why are they unchecked?

But with the DENYLIST handling, are we blocking Skia altogether, or just Vulkan
GPU rendering?  Meaning, how would the user know--looking at the Help -> About
and seeing Default (i.e. GDI) rendering?

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