Bug 65467

Summary:	Possible Unity Desktop Integration Bug in LO 4.0
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Frank <foberle>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0.3.3 release
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Frank 2013-06-06 15:18:24 UTC

Possibly related to Bug Report 61461 (see comments below), but I suspect not quite the same thing.

This is applicable to LibreOffice 4.0.3.3, and specifically Build ID: 0eaa50a932c8f2199a615e1eb30f7ac74279539 running on 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04LTS. This does NOT refer to the stock LibreOffice available in the Ubuntu Software Center.

The Desktop Integration package accompanying this release of LibreOffice, specifically in the [libreoffice4.0-debian-menus_4.0.3-3_all.deb] package, installs with no visible errors, but either isn't recognized by Libre or Ubuntu or Unity, or just has some sort of bug.

The symptoms are simple: LibreOffice apps continue to have the menu bar in their own windows, and those menus do not appear on the Unity top bar, nor can they be used by the Heads-Up facility.

I've confirmed that other applications were displaying the Ubuntu/HUD menus, so I suspect the problem must be with LibreOffice and not with Ubuntu or Unity.

Bug Report 61461 seems to imply that this feature is not available for the independent version of LO, only for the one in the Ubuntu Software Center, but if that's the case, I don't understand why the desktop integration package (referenced above) is included with the download. Thus my suspicion that this is indeed a bug.

Comment 1 Jorendc 2013-06-08 09:06:01 UTC

Hi there :-),

(In reply to comment #0)
> Possibly related to Bug Report 61461 (see comments below), but I suspect not
> quite the same thing.

Yes, I followed that discussion on the bug reporter, and in the IRC-channels. There was a misleading 'feature' listed in the 'Release Notes' of LibreOffice 4.0. Following that it was possible to have a Unity integration, but it isn't.
 
> Bug Report 61461 seems to imply that this feature is not available for the
> independent version of LO, only for the one in the Ubuntu Software Center,
> but if that's the case, I don't understand why the desktop integration
> package (referenced above) is included with the download. Thus my suspicion
> that this is indeed a bug.

Yes, but Ubuntu isn't the only Linux OS that uses .deb installation packages (like debian (which Ubuntu is based on), Linux Mint, Linux Bodhi, etc etc). So, it maybe looks like it is a bug in Ubuntu, but it isn't. That package just doesn't include Unity integration.

But there is a solution: using this PPA https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-4-0 . This is also highly recommended by our LibreOffice expert at Canonical (Ubuntu). This PPA provides a unity integration itself, and it is also possible to upgrade each time using the OS update tool, instead of downloading it yourself via the website etc etc.

Your mentioned behavior is therefore very normal :-), and I'll mark this bug as RESOLVED NOTABUG due what I said above.

Thanks for explaining your problem that clear and well. I hope I helped you too :-)?

Kind regards,
Joren