Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Using_LibreOffice_in_a_Web_Browser

13/11/12 Pedro <pedlino@gmail.com>

> Hi Gabriel, Joel, all
>
>
> Gabriel Risterucci wrote
> > I'm having a hard t​ime compiling libreoffice with gtk3 support (or
> > rather, my VM is having a hard time :D).
> > However, I did build gtk3 with the broadway module and launched an
> > application (gedit) on my linux box, and "showed" it on my windows box.
> > It's really only the display that goes to the browser, as I see my linux
> > FS
> > and nothing else.
> >
> > It's still interesting, though. If my LO build end anytime soon *and*
> work
> > with gtk3, I'll post more details.
>
> Please do. Thanks!

Ok, so I built LibreOffice 4.2.0.0.alpha1 with GTK3 support, as it's needed
to use the broadway backend it provide.
The result is less than stellar, unfortunately. I don't know how well LO is
written to support GTK3 yet, but there's a lot of improvements needed to
make this usable:
- Display's all whonky: menu items don't always show, have a black
background, when scrolling a document the content disappear...
- Windows/Dialogs not always opening/closing
- Crash when using fullscreen functionalities
- General unresponsiveness (on a local connection)

Also, not that I tried this with GTK 3.4.2, far from the last version.

However, even if the graphical part is fixed, the following will stay true:
- The application runs 100% on the server. Think of it as an X11
application sending it's windows to a remote machine: only the display is
deported. Execution, filesystem, all is from the server.
- Shortcuts will likely be an issue
- Response time will be a major setback: you press a key, it have to go to
the server, then the server send back a display update to the browser.
Running locally it's somewhat noticeable; over the internet that would be
problematic (although useable).

Don't know exactly where the fault lies, but some other gtk applications
works well, so I believe it's a mix between broadway not being perfect and
LibreOffice doing funny stuff to GTK.​​

You can see it "in action" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quzoMEXRAhg.
You might want to cut the sound though, my spoken english is far from
pleasant ;)

If I get around running a more recent version of GTK3 without breaking my
system, and if it improve things in a way that make it usable, I'll tell
here.

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