Bug 149728 - LibreOffice 7.3.3 and above: Locally Integrated Menu (LIM) disappears with kf5 and material-decoration theme
Summary: LibreOffice 7.3.3 and above: Locally Integrated Menu (LIM) disappears with kf...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.3.3.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: bibisectRequest, possibleRegression
: 152362 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: KDE, KF5
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Reported: 2022-06-25 11:56 UTC by Max
Modified: 2024-10-02 11:09 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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LO Writer 7.3.2 with LIM: main menu is in title (159.15 KB, image/png)
2022-06-25 12:00 UTC, Max
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LO Writer 7.3.3 with LIM: no main menu is in title (144.32 KB, image/png)
2022-06-25 12:01 UTC, Max
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LO 7.3.3 start window with LIM: main menu is in title (267.12 KB, image/png)
2022-06-25 12:06 UTC, Max
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Screenshot with master daily build on Debian testing (39.71 KB, image/png)
2022-06-27 10:22 UTC, Michael Weghorn
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Master daily build looks different in appimg against pure deb installation (164.90 KB, image/png)
2022-06-28 13:31 UTC, Max
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Console output of Master Daily AppImg (11.82 KB, text/plain)
2022-07-02 10:21 UTC, Max
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Description Max 2022-06-25 11:56:58 UTC
Description:
I have been using the material-decoration theme in Plasma for a long time (https://github.com/Zren/material-decoration ).
This theme gives Locally Integrated Menu (LIM - a way to move main menu into the window title)

Up to LO 7.3.3 whit kf5 LIM worked as expected.

With updating to 7.3.3, LIM has disappeared from title.

LO works some strange

If start libreoffice (it opens start window) - LIM is in title bar
If start libreoffice --writer | --calc | etc. - LIM disappears
If start libreoffice and create any document - LIM is on start window and disappears in document window.

I found two workarounds on it:

1st, migrate on VLC = gtk3, but it isn't convenient because I lost my well configured kf5 file open dialog

2nd, copy libvclplug_qt5lo.so, libkf5be1lo.so, libvclplug_kf5lo.so from LO 7.3.2 (latest working version) to LO 7.3.4 (my current version)

Steps to Reproduce:
For Arch or Manjara 
1. Install  material-kwin-decoration-git
2. Select "material" for window decoration
3. Run libreoffice --writer (e.g.)

Actual Results:
No main menu is in title bar

Expected Results:
main menu is in title bar


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
Version: 7.3.4.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 30(Build:2)
CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: ru-RU (ru_RU.UTF8); UI: ru-RU
Gentoo official package
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Max 2022-06-25 12:00:44 UTC
Created attachment 180960 [details]
LO Writer 7.3.2 with LIM: main menu is in title
Comment 2 Max 2022-06-25 12:01:20 UTC
Created attachment 180961 [details]
LO Writer 7.3.3 with LIM: no main menu is in title
Comment 3 Max 2022-06-25 12:06:21 UTC
Created attachment 180962 [details]
LO 7.3.3 start window with LIM: main menu is in title

LO 7.3.3: if run in terminal "libreoffice" then main menu is in title bar
but after click to create new document LIM disappears
Comment 4 Michael Weghorn 2022-06-27 10:22:36 UTC
Created attachment 180981 [details]
Screenshot with master daily build on Debian testing
Comment 5 Michael Weghorn 2022-06-27 10:27:11 UTC
If I understand this correctly, it works OK here, s. screenshot attachment 180981 [details], created in a Debian testing VM with a daily build of LibreOffice and self-compiled material-decoration of its master branch (as of commit 973949761f609f9c676c5b2b7c6d9560661d34c3), following the instructions in the https://github.com/Zren/material-decoration README, in particular

> Make sure you add the AppMenu button in System Settings > Application Style > Window Decorations > Buttons Tab.

Can you confirm that the attached screenshot shows correct behavior?

If so, can you please check whether it works for you with a daily build as well?
Those are available here: https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/current.html
Instructions to install in parallel: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Linux

Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 415dc3bb1c03dbdbc3cbca274bc435ac7557ba2d
CPU threads: 2; OS: Linux 5.18; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: en-US (C.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 6 Max 2022-06-28 13:31:28 UTC
Created attachment 181004 [details]
Master daily build looks different in appimg against pure deb installation

At first of all I created AppImg with wiki instruction.
Next I ran Master daily AppImg in Manjaro.
It gave me no LIM in title bar, but a lot of error warnings about vlc in terminal.

Next I ran the AppImg in my primary Gentoo.
AppImg got gtk3 as vcl.
Setting SAL_USE_VLC PLUGINS=kf5 in user environment or in terminal SAL_USE_VLC PLUGINS=kf5 ./LibreOffice Dev-7.5.0.0.alpha 0_2022-06-27-x86_64.AppImage gave no luck to me

I have kubuntu 20.04 for testing
Running the AppImg in Kubuntu gives me the same result as in Manjaro - no LIMIT

I installed community compiled deb packages (make_appimg script used them as source for the AppImg)

I run libreofficedev7.5 --writer ... and  we got LIM.

So, it works, but if LO installed from community compiled deb packages in main system environment, not AppImg
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2022-06-29 03:39:24 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 Michael Weghorn 2022-07-01 05:45:28 UTC
(In reply to Max from comment #6)
> So, it works, but if LO installed from community compiled deb packages in
> main system environment, not AppImg

That's interesting...

If it works with deb packages but not the AppImg, I tend to suggest to close this bug here as WORKSFORME and open a GitHub issue for the script that generates the AppImg instead: https://github.com/antoniofaccioli/libreoffice-appimage

What do you think?
Comment 9 Max 2022-07-02 10:21:18 UTC
Created attachment 181082 [details]
Console output of Master Daily AppImg

IMO, the issue is not a case of appimg script.

It also affects on self compiled binaries such in Gentoo, not only AppImg created from debs.

Is affects Manjaro too.

As I wrote above during appimg runtime there was a lot warnings  about vcl (see an attachment).

But I've tested Master Daily rpm in OpenSuse tumbleweed VM - it works fine.
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2022-07-03 03:31:45 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 11 Michael Weghorn 2022-07-04 04:20:57 UTC
(In reply to Max from comment #9)

> IMO, the issue is not a case of appimg script.
> 
> It also affects on self compiled binaries such in Gentoo, not only AppImg
> created from debs.
> 
> Is affects Manjaro too.
> 
> (...)
> 
> But I've tested Master Daily rpm in OpenSuse tumbleweed VM - it works fine.

OK, let's leave this bug open for now then.

It surprises me that it works with the same version for the non-AppImg case, but not if it's an AppImg, since my (maybe naive) expectation would be that it should just behave the same way, given the same files from the LO build are used.
But then, I don't know much about AppImg. Is any sandboxing,... involved there? (I know that is the case for Flatpak and Snap, but thought that it isn't for AppImg in general.)

Some typical "suspects" that come to my mind that may usually play a role when things behave differently on different systems for the kf5 VCL plugin:

* Qt library versions
* KF5 library /Plasma version
* other system libs
* X11 vs Wayland
* user profile/settings (for either LO or KDE Plasma)

This *might* be relevant for different behavior across distros, but I don't see how it would explain the AppImg vs. non-AppImg difference, unless the generated AppImg file includes different libraries than the system ones. (I don't know much about AppImg, though.)

Without any clear steps to reliably reproduce this in a development setup, I fear it's unlikely that this will get fixed soon.

If you can identify what's the relevant part that makes it work on one system, but not another, that might be of much help.

What you could also try is to identify from which commit on this no longer works, by doing a bibisect using the 7.3 bibisect repo (in case the problem is reproducible with this repo). More details here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bibisect

> Created attachment 181082 [details]
> Console output of Master Daily AppImg
> 
> (...)
> As I wrote above during appimg runtime there was a lot warnings  about vcl
> (see an attachment).

Those shouldn't be related to the issue discussed here.
The java warning should go away if you install a JRE (and maybe have to select it in the LO settings).
Comment 12 rom1dep 2023-02-03 18:12:21 UTC
This looks like a related bug in the LO flatpak repo: https://github.com/flathub/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/issues/63

As I understand it:
- appmenu doesn't work with Gtk apps under KDE+Wayland¹ in general
- using the kf5 VCL backend could work around the issue (but this backend seems absent from/broken in the flatpak distribution)
- (at least on my machine) the Gtk VCL backend doesn't ensure that the menu bar is displayed in-app under KDE+Wayland, which is unlike every other Gtk apps (AFAICT)

Perhaps this last point could be improved upon, if LO could detect that it's running under wayland, and make sure that an in-app menu is shown in this case?



¹: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424485
Comment 13 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-02-29 13:07:23 UTC
*** Bug 152362 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-02-29 13:14:14 UTC
Confirmed via duplicate bug Bug 152362.
Comment 15 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2024-02-29 13:17:00 UTC
(In reply to rom1dep from comment #12)
> This looks like a related bug in the LO flatpak repo:
> https://github.com/flathub/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice/issues/63
Thanks for putting me on the right track!
There is a separate report about this Wayland + flatpak issue: bug 156387
I've closed it as "not our bug" as it looks like the solution will be done on the flatpak packaging side, but feel free to add your thought there.
Comment 16 Guido Iodice 2024-10-02 11:09:08 UTC
I can confirm the bug on Kf6 and Qt6

One thing I have noticed is the strange behaviour, which I will try to describe (it was the same with Kf5): 

* I start the start centre: the menu appears 
* From the start centre I open a file: the menu remains that of the start centre (with Kf5 it disappeared) and does not work. 
* I open Writer *without the search bar activated*: the menu appears 
* but if I open a file from File > Recent the menu doesnt work anymore (with Kf5 it disappeared)
* With the search bar activated: the menu does not appear 

For now my workaround is to restart kwin.