Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:45:01 + dmthomp...@gmx.com wrote: Hello dmthomp...@gmx.com, >.but I believe when I installed libreoffice-gtk3 not all the >components of libreoffice were pulled in - unlike the standard >libreoffice install >- if this make sense to all. Yeah, it does; Sh&t 'appens

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-19 Thread dmthompson
Hi, What happened, to install openoffice using dpkg, libreoffice was removed, along with various other packages, so when i came back to reinstating libreoffice (as part of testing) openoffice was removed, but I believe when I installed libreoffice-gtk3 not all the components of libreoffice were p

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:38:23 + Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >OK, times change. {deleted for brevity} That's quite a tale of woes. For full disclosure, I've never used Base or Impress at all. I'm just aware they're available to me. The pendulum swings, I suppose. ;-) -- Regards _ "Va

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:39:21 + Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >A standard Debian stable installation will not include Base or Impress, Really? Because I see Depends: libreoffice-impress and libreoffice-base in testing. >It should certainly have included Writer. Agreed. -- Regards _ "Val

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:34:42 + dmthomp...@gmx.com wrote: Hello dmthomp...@gmx.com, >called Joe gave the hint, and i checked to see if swriter was installed >it was not so I installed it, and the was able to open a swriter doc in That makes it sound as though you may not have the package 'lib

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread dmthompson
Hi all, Its what I am used to doing, and my thinking seems to go that way, but you are right, at the end of the day. I looged back into Debian this morning, after the email I sent following this thread title/subject, and you are right, and i think the person called Joe gave the hint, and i check

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Hans
I believe, the original poster meant, if he clicks on an *.odt file, then he expects libreoffice to be started. This is a feature of the windowmanager he is using. To help him, we should know, which windowmanager (KDE, Gnome, XFCE whatever) he is using, as each wm jhas its own settings. Hans

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:29:34 + wrote: Hello dmthomp...@gmx.com, >I just typed, to install libreoffice-gtk, one would expect for all >components of the suite to be installed - right;) No; Why would you install (for example) libreoffice-qt if you don't use KDE/Plasma? A rhetorical questio

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread dmthompson
Hi all, Thanks for the reply, and help. I do not know the answer to the question, as yet. All i know is that unlike what I am used to, some kind of user interface comes up, where one part is a large box that incite dropping docs into to open - I tried that yesterday but still got an attempt to o

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-17 Thread tomas
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Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-17 Thread Joe
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:54:49 + wrote: > Hello, > > Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on Debian > is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt documents with > wrong application (chart when it should be a word-processor), online > help about this issue is

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-17 Thread dmthompson
Hello, Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on Debian is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt documents with wrong application (chart when it should be a word-processor), online help about this issue is no help, cannot open word-processor directly have to go

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-15 Thread Christian Britz
Am 15.12.24 um 13:37 schrieb david thompson: > I am using xfce4 desktop, have Adwaita-dark, and xfce-duskm as well as other > themes installed. Please try libreoffice-gtk3

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-15 Thread david thompson
Hi Thanks for the reply, and info. Yeah, I forgot to include certain details. I am using xfce4 desktop, have Adwaita-dark, and xfce-duskm as well as other themes installed. Once again thanks. BTW tried out openmandriva other night, opened libreoffice, using the dark theme and libreiffice too

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-14 Thread Christian Britz
Am 13.12.24 um 13:02 schrieb david thompson: > I am having some trouble getting libreoffice or/and openoffice adopting the > system theme - they wont do it. There are packages like for example libreoffice-plasma, libreoffice-kf5, libreoffice-style-breeze you can use for integration in your des