Hi, Thank you Tor for starting this discussion; very interesting and necessary. I've been confused about these different modes for a while, in particular because I run on both Mac and Linux where the same switch works differently.
I use LO for document analysis (not conversion), i.e. I need to load a document and poke its styles and also extract some content. This *should* run without any GUI because we don't even have the X libs installed on Linux; works ok so far. That exact same approach on Mac *always* pops open a window, which has irritated me for a while. Good you mention that this might be broken. Another question that arose from these switches is the "server mode" in general. I mean, when I run LO headless with a named pipe or socket port, then it becomes a server. However, it seems to scale poorly, and your mention of dialog/error boxes trying to disrupt the use makes me nervous. https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=74002 I was unable to find good documentation regarding headless mode, server mode, and interacting with LO in such an environment. Perhaps, to bring order into these various switches, it'll help to define use cases and use scenarios; then adjust and fix the switches accordingly. Cheers, Jens -- Jens Tröger http://savage.light-speed.de/ _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
