What does weld do for libreoffice

[Alex Kempshall]

How does kde fit into this?

Would Tools-> Macros -> Organise Macros -> LibreOffice Basic -> Edit 
become a candidate for "welding"


On 17/06/18 21:03, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-06-15 at 22:35 +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
>> see
>> http://caolanm.blogspot.com/2018/04/some-native-gtk-dialogs-in-libreo
>> ffice.html
> Yes, so this "welding" makes it possible to replace the vcl
> implementation of dialogs with an alternative toolkit implementation,
> namely GTK. The dialogs are already described by the GtkBuilder file
> format and the translations are already in compatible gettext format so
> the GTK implementation can use those directly. Non gtk platforms
> continue to use the vcl implementation with the vcl parser of the
> GtkBuilder file format which maps them to equivalent vcl widgets, so
> other platforms should generally remain as they are.
>
> Writer's "insert->table dialog", "table->split cells" and
> "insert->special characters" are some concrete examples of this at the
> moment.
>
> Under GTK you can tell if its a welded dialog because the themeing is,
> by definition I suppose, fully correct. Stuff like animated checkboxes
> for example and fade in of entry borders on focus-in now work. Password
> entries that indicate if the caps lock is on, and the semi-transparent
> overlay scrollbar are some other indicators that a dialog has been
> converted over.
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