OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice's menus don't appear in the menu bar

The menu do not appear in any Java/Swing app as well.

Marking the indicator-appmenu tasks as invalid as I dont' believe there is any work that needs to be done there. Only in the openoffice.org package.

I guess things should be easier now that OpenOffice.org was forked. Having native menus for LibreOffice seems to be something the upstream developper would want (Getting Rid of Java, and revamping the UI is on the agenda, and there was a similar proposal for Qt)

Filed in the libreoffice bugtracker and linked here to facilitate coordination.

We don't have plans to support OpenOffice directly in the appmenu, since OpenOffice uses yet another toolkit. Our efforts have been directed towards XUL to extend appmenu support direclly.

We're welcoming patches to help make openoffice work with appmenu though. For example, we're getting contributions to get Java/SWT apps to integrate better with it.

Would a LibreOffice patch implementing a native GTK menu for LibO help this? Will the GTK menu be automatically be proxied to the appmenu indicator?

@Robert:

Embedding a Gtk+ Widget into LibreOffice would be a total nightmare and the code would be a lot more prone to regressions as it would imply some nasty integration with the OOo/LO widget system (using the offscreen windows in Gtk+ and doing event redirection). The only Gtk+ widgets used in OOo are Dialogs which do not present this problem.

Creating a UNO Component that exposes the Menu structure through DBus is the way to go.

Don't expect any dbusmenu work to get this done.

Don't expect any indicator-appmenu work to get this done.

Work has started on this: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/02/work-on-libre-office-application-menu-support-progressing/

The project is here: http://launchpad.net/lo-menubar

Linking with lp:lo-menubar

I don't know if this is the same bug or if I should file it separately, but when I download a .pptx file with firefox and tell it to "Open With" LibreOffice Impress (so it saves it in /tmp and starts LibreOffice automatically) the Nautilus menu appears in the menu bar and the LibreOffice menus are at the top of the window where they would be without Unity. The close, minimize, maximize window controls are also missing if the window is maximized. If I switch the focus to another program then switch back, the Nautilus menu disappears and the window controls appear.

I've attached a screenshot of the problem.

Closing in libreoffice packaging as this functionality is enabled by the lo-menubar package.

Should the same be done for openoffice.org as it's just a transitional package in Natty and newer?

Closing Natty task as OO.org is a transitional package in it.

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There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.