OpenOffice thinks gnome is metacity
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| openoffice.org (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Steps to reproduce:
1. Start a gnome session, and launch an oo.org application. Make sure that "Use OpenOffice.org dialogs" is not checked in the preferences.
2. Select "File-->Open" from the menu, and observe the gtk Open/Save dialog. Then close the oo.org application.
3. In a terminal, type "kwin --replace".
4. Launch the oo.org application a second time. Select "File-->Open" from the menu.
Actual result: You see the OpenOffice.org Open/Save dialog.
Expected result: You see the gtk Open/Save dialog.
Possible explanation: openoffice.org-gtk is supposed to use gtk widgets "when running in a gnome session". However, the way it tests whether it is running in a gnome session seems to be to examine which window manager is running. So if you run a gnome session with the kwin window manager, openoffice.org decides (incorrectly) that you are not in gnome, and it therefore does not use the gtk widget.
| description: | updated |
| Áron Sisak (asisak) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in openoffice.org: | |
| assignee: | nobody → asisak |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Needs Info |
| Áron Sisak (asisak) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in openoffice.org: | |
| assignee: | asisak → nobody |
| status: | Needs Info → Confirmed |
| Changed in openoffice.org: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
For me it seems that OO.org thinks that it is KDE (the whole application behaves that way) if you run kwin. However, Gnome dialogs & setting are used both in openbox and metacity.