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Re: Latest libreoffice 4.0.3 update breaks global menus in Ubuntu 1.204

 

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:02:18AM -0000, Jeff Gosden wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I cannot log a bug report as the launchpad page doesn't allow me to.
> Hence this route of communication instead.
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and the libreoffice PPA. I have only just updated
> libreoffice this morning (20/05/2013) through the update manager to
> version 4.0.3 and now ALL the menus for libreoffice are blank / empty
> (using unity global menu).
> 
> The menus drop-down, and there is space where you'd expect to see text,
> but they are all empty. I've removed .config/libreoffice config folder
> to see if this worked, but still the same issue. Also I have tried to
> change system font from Ubuntu to other fonts, still no joy.
> 
> If I remove the package libreffice-gnome & libreoffice-gtk (both
> 1:4.0.3-0ubuntu1~precise1) then the menus are back, but without the gtk
> interface / global menu.
> 
> Please advise how I can get this bug report over to the libreoffice
> team.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.

Yes, the 12.04s base system (unity) is to old to handle the unity integration
correctly. We will need to disable it in the backports. see also:

 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64115

@ricotz: Do you maybe find time to tweak the 12.04 backport?

Best,

Bjoern