LO4 in repos?

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:02:00 +0100
Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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

Thanks for the cogent response.  I, not being a programmer, am now off
to read up on dbus.

Cybe R. Wizard
-- 
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	Cybe R. Wizard