Bug 116910 - Use hardware acceleration cannot be enabled on Macs
Summary: Use hardware acceleration cannot be enabled on Macs
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.0.3.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) macOS (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2018-04-10 00:14 UTC by swrobel
Modified: 2018-04-11 08:00 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Screenshot showing disabled option (68.47 KB, image/png)
2018-04-10 00:15 UTC, swrobel
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Description swrobel 2018-04-10 00:14:29 UTC
Description:
Hardware acceleration does not appear to be available on Macs

Steps to Reproduce:
Open Preferences > LibreOffice > View

Actual Results:  
"Use hardware acceleration" option is grayed out and cannot be enabled

Expected Results:
Use hardware acceleration should be available


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
Tested on 2 different Macs (iMac & Macbook Pro) both running macOS 10.13.4 (latest at this time). Tested in Safe Mode as well.

Version: 6.0.3.2
Build ID: 8f48d515416608e3a835360314dac7e47fd0b821
CPU threads: 4; OS: Mac OS X 10.13.4; UI render: GL; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1 Safari/605.1.15
Comment 1 swrobel 2018-04-10 00:15:10 UTC
Created attachment 141238 [details]
Screenshot showing disabled option
Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2018-04-11 07:15:45 UTC
My understanding was that this had been turned off deliberately as it caused too many problems for a number of users (random crashes, freezes, etc).
Comment 3 swrobel 2018-04-11 08:00:15 UTC
So you can't even allow us to turn it on at our own peril?
Comment 4 swrobel 2018-04-11 08:00:29 UTC
Seriously, at least document it, this is ridiculous