Bug 168072 - Want ability to list supported VCLs from command-line
Summary: Want ability to list supported VCLs from command-line
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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26.2.0.0 alpha0+ master
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Commandline
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Reported: 2025-08-22 22:38 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-08-22 22:38 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-08-22 22:38:35 UTC 
Suppose I've logged on to some system and want to run LibreOffice. But - which VCL should I use? I don't know! How can I check? 

Determing which VCLs are installed and available is obviously OS-distribution-dependent, no way to do that uniformly, ourselves. What better tool to check this, then, if not LibreOffice? But other than trial-and-error with every potential VCL, it doesn't look like LO lets us do this.

So, I would like to have a command-line option, e.g. `--list-vcls`, which would print the list of VCLs which are known to be available/usable.