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On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 22:03, Carl Ekman wrote: > I am sorry if I do not send this to the right place, but I hope that you > could > redirect me if so is the case. The mailing list is ok; since its a bug you could have used the BTS too. > I run Debian sid with KDE and OpenOffice and have noticed problems with the > way OpenOffice takes on the look and feel of KDE. > > I use an extra set of directories for KDE settings, so that my KDEDIRS > variable points to my own global settings directory, then to /usr. I move all > settings that seems suitable for all users to my global settings directory > and away from my ~/.kde/, and keep the temporary and personal settings. > > Now the strange problem is as follows: When I use the local default colors > for > KDE, OpenOffice takes on its own default color set. When my personal settings > differ from the global settings, OpenOffice takes on my personal settings. > > The same goes for fonts. For instance, my current system default is Nimbus > Sans L, size 12pt. OpenOffice then uses some weird really small and ugly font > for the GUI. When I change my personal font preferences to use Nimbus Sans L, > size 13pt, OpenOffice uses it. > > This bug seems strange, and could be a real problem in large GUI > installations > with KDE.. > > Regards, and thanks for maintaining OpenOffice! > > Carl Ekman, > Sweden > It's a bug. OOo does not try to read KDEDIRS at all. Upstream has even worse KDE integration - it does not read KDEHOME or use the menu font. I was actually planning on submitting our patch upstream, but it looks like we need to add support for KDEDIRS support to it too. Filing a report to make sure this doesn't get forgotten. Chris
