Hi Andor,
On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 16:05 +0100, Andor E wrote:
> I have read recently that LibreOffice 3.5 will support an online mode.
Correct :-) at least - this is a prototype feature, and it needs a
chunk of work to productise it, but you can certainly play with it.
> I'm aware that this is still experimental, but I'd like to give it a
> test anyway, since we are highly interested in such a feature.
Great :-)
> I was unable to find any documentation how to host LibreOffice.
> Could someone give me some pointers, where I have to start?
So - I spent some time writing this out below. Do you think you can
create a wiki page and dump the details in there in a prettier format by
any chance ? [ that would help others with the same question ], and mail
the link back :-)
So - firstly, it requires a Linux server; and then it requires a very
recent version (git master) of gtk3, or failing that, I back-ported the
required fixes for openSUSE 12.1 here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/michael_meeks:/branches:/openSUSE:/12.1:/Update/standard/i586/
from
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Amichael_meeks%3Abranches%3AopenSUSE%3A12.1%3AUpdate
That's perhaps the easiest way to get it going. Without the above fixes
you're stuck with the FireFox 4 (only) websockets impl. with them, you
can use 'any modern browser' ;-)
Then - you'll want a master compile of LibreOffice, we don't pre-build
this stuff into our generic 3.5.0 packages for various complicated and
unpleasant reasons.
To get that checkout the steps here, and ask for help if you get stuck:
http://www.libreoffice.org/developers-3/
Adding --disable-java as an autogen.sh/configure option might make your
life significantly easier.
Finally, when that is done do a 'make dev-install'
cd install/program
export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3
export GDK_BACKEND=broadway
./soffice -writer
you should get a splash-screen and lots of churning debug, then nothing.
Head over to a browser:
http://localhost:8080
and you're ready to play, and debug & have some fun.
Press '9' to turn on the debug bbox re-rendering to show what area is
re-rendered as you type (I have a patch to remove a hack to over-expand
that if you get this far), and zero to force-refresh the screen.
HTH,
Michael.
--
michael.me...@suse.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot
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