Make LibreOffice Prettier

hhh · 2017-03-26 13:06:08

This might have been posted already, but I haven't seen it before.

I've installed a testing ISO of our CD-sized Deuterium image, soon to be released (hopefully). I installed libreoffice-writer from the system menu, here's what it looks like...

Yuck! There's a package in Debian for this, libreoffice-gtk (in stretch and above it's libreoffice-gtk2, and there's a systray package named libreoffice-systray). There's also a recommended package named libreoffice-style-tango which I assume is Tango icons, I left that out and just installed...

sudo apt install libreoffice-gtk --no-install-recommends

That looks better, but can we shrink those giant toolbars? Yes, yes we can... Tools>Options>LibreOffice>View>Icon Size and Style>Small

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-03-26 13:17:05

Thank you so much for this, I was just today getting irritated by the Qt theming.

Set as default, perhaps?

hhh · 2017-03-26 13:26:32

Your welcome, I owed you for gtk3-nocsd!

nore · 2017-03-26 16:32:24

hhh wrote:

gtk, shrink

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Set as default, perhaps?

That, plus sifr icons.

brontosaurusrex · 2017-03-26 17:47:10

That plus breeze icons.
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/lib … yle-breeze

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2017-03-26 17:51:16)

nore · 2017-03-26 18:28:37

^They will do fine too. As long as they are simple and monochrome, they finish consistent look.

edit: Breeze vs. Sifr:

Breeze looks a bit too skinny in my eyes, when it is scaled down. Both seem to lack some icons.

Last edited by nore (2017-03-26 18:47:35)

brontosaurusrex · 2017-03-26 19:00:21

nore wrote:

Both seem to lack some icons.

Haven't noticed, breeze seems to be default on OSX and with KDE, so that would be disturbing.

btw, icon theme breeze seems to be mentioned in
~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/registrymodifications.xcu

This

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<oor:items xmlns:oor="http://openoffice.org/2001/registry" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Common/Misc"><prop oor:name="SymbolStyle" oor:op="fuse"><value>breeze</value></prop></item>
</oor:items>

seems to be enough to force breeze and the file gets completed/overwriten on libreoffice writer first start.

p.s. Download size of breeze-icon-theme_xy + libreoffice-style-breeze is about 2 megabytes (if I got this right).

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2017-03-27 15:43:28)

johnraff · 2017-03-27 04:29:41

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Thank you so much for this, I was just today getting irritated by the Qt theming.
Set as default, perhaps?

That gtk package is already included in the BL Libreoffice metapackage, but is not in the default BL package list, nor is it brought in by the libreoffice pipemenu when installing individual LO items.

How to handle this? Just add it to the default package list? Tweak the pipemenu to install it along with any LO components?

Then, maybe leave it to users to adjust the icon sizes to their preferences?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-03-27 06:31:54

johnraff wrote:

That gtk package is already included in the BL Libreoffice metapackage

BL has libreoffice-writer rather than the metapackage and this does not include the GTK package, unless I've missed something.

Is your lowriter not fugly by default?

johnraff wrote:

How to handle this? Just add it to the default package list? Tweak the pipemenu to install it along with any LO components?
Then, maybe leave it to users to adjust the icon sizes to their preferences?

Sounds good to me

hhh · 2017-03-27 06:59:01

+1, add it to the standard images but leave rewriting the CD pipemenu entry for now.

johnraff · 2017-03-27 07:11:35

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

johnraff wrote:
That gtk package is already included in the BL Libreoffice metapackage...
BL has libreoffice-writer rather than the metapackage and this does not include the GTK package, unless I've missed something.

Indeed not, as I said right below that:

johnraff wrote:

...but is not in the default BL package list

So let's add it.

Is your lowriter not fugly by default?

No, because I've installed the whole metapackage (plenty of disk space).

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