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Re: [trinity-devel] LibreOffice 3.4.2

From: Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@...>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:21:28 +0400
On Wednesday 17 August 2011 04:15:03 Timothy Pearson wrote:

> > There is no support for KDE3 file picker dialog boxes. No option even
> > exists in the Options.
> >
> > I'm using 3.5.10, which is not Trinity, but I'm guessing if the upstream
> > RPM from ODF is like this then Trinity likely gets miffed too.
> >
> > How do we convince the ODF developers to directly provide KDE3/Trinity
> > support upstream when they build their official release?
> >
> > Darrell
> >
> 
> By providing a plugin that is maintained by the official TDE project. 
> That is on our to-do list, but has not yet been started.

What plugin if nobody removed KDE3 support from LibreOffice?

> 
> Essentially the following must happen:
> 1.) Pull the KDE3 picker code (including build script alterations) from
> the OpenOffice 3.2 / TDE 3.5.12 builds on QuickBuild.

Why namely from 3.2? It works well in my 3.3.3 as well.

> 2.) Ensure that they apply to LibreOffice and produce working binaries on
> TDE 3.5.13 with Qt3.
> 3.) Convert to TQt (a simple process that I can do in a day or so AFAIK)
> and rename all "KDE" strings to "TDE".
> 4.) Rebuild, test, etc. until everything works properly.
> 5.) Push the patches into our GIT and notify LibreOffice that we have a
> new plugin for them!

Big plans, only why if the current LO builds well with KDE3 support?