I am a developer at Zotero: one of the leading reference management softwares. I've recently taken over the development of word integration plugins, including one for LibreOffice/OpenOffice. The code was handed over to me as-is, it is a Java based extension and I have been trying to resolve a couple of issues while figuring out how it works, but have been running into LibreOffice bugs on every corner. It appears that MacOS is neglected by LO, so I am trying to bring attention to the biggest issues:
1. Extension installing by double-clicking .oxt files has been broken for nearly a year. This bug is still present on 5.3.0.3 and Mac OS Sierra https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99784 2. There are no decent ways to do debug logging on MacOS; none of the commandline options are available https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport/Debug_Information#Mac_OSX:_How_to_get_debug_information 3. Since MacOS X El Capitan LibreOffice won't detect Oracle JREs and only works with JDK. We have instructions for MacOS users in Zotero documentation. I cannot find any bugs on the bugtracker https://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_troubleshooting#libreoffice_5_on_macos_1011no_response_from_plugin 4. Since MacOS Sierra LibreOffice is generally very slow. We have been getting reports of people having issues after performing a couple of actions with our extension, but there have been no changes on our end since 2015. Moreover, it seems that LibreOffice itself is terribly slow -- on my 2014 MacBook Pro it takes some good 5 seconds to open Character..., Paragraph... or Bullets and Numbering... dialogs. On a 2016 linux machine with similar specs it's essentially instantaneous. There are some reports of this slowness online, but no bugs on the bugtracker that I could find. https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/79342/libreoffice-extremely-slow-in-mac-os-sierra/ https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/77793/libreoffice-hangs-on-macos-sierra/ 5. Trying to launch an Xdebug server with Java JDK 1.8.0_121 to debug a Java extension throws an error "LibreOffice requires a Java runtime environment (JRE) to perform this task. The selected JRE is defective. Please select another version or install a new JRE and select it under LibreOffice - Preferences - LibreOffice - Advanced." I've followed these instructions https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Start_Parameters 6. I'm running into a specific problem where XMessageBoxFactory#createMessageBox() won't display a dialog (the main window goes inactive and you have to press Esc/Enter, so the dialog box is created, but not visible on MacOS), but I don't have a small test-case yet. Possible it is our code. I was hoping to debug it with Eclipse + Java Xdebug server, but (5) rendered that impossible. We want to provide a good experience for Zotero + LibreOffice users on MacOS, but with the current state of LO it is proving difficult. I am willing to create bugs on the bugtracker and provide debug information (if somebody can point me in the direction of getting said debug info on MacOS), but since the extension installation bug hasn't been solved for so long I am not feeling very positive about whether there is going to be any movement with any of these either. What is the current state of MacOS LO development and is it possible to get some love for the MacOS version? Thanks, Adomas -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Various-MacOS-extension-issues-tp4208756.html Sent from the Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
