LO4 in repos?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Di, 2013-02-12 at 09:38 -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

> Are you saying that the drop down menu predates all the applications it
> shows?  Somehow I don't think that's the case.  I believe the menu does
> the 'integration' of all those packages and shows them no matter the
> package or menu origin date.
> 
> I must be missing something, but can't figure out just what.  
> 
> What is it about Unity which causes it to need packages to support it
> instead of it supporting the packages?  It seems to make for a
> quite limited number of 'supported' packages.  

the global appmenu in unity as well as the HUD read the menu items via
dbus, the toolkits provide that info on the bus ...

openoffice (and libO until recently) dont really use the standard linux
widget toolkits (GTK/Qt/younameit) so it had to have special treatment
(same is true for firefox and thunderbird, all three dont really use
common linux toolkits due to the need for windows compatibility) 

so for these three apps (i think chromium also falls into that category
but simply doesnt provide a traditional menu at all) who ship their own
special toolkit you need an additional patch to provide the dbus
service ...

in libO 4 as well as in recent TB and FF these patches are now upstream
so are not needed to be maintained in the distro anymore ...

note that being able to actually apply such patches upstream was one of
the reasons why LibO exists (this wasnt possible in openoffice by
design)

ciao
	oli
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