LibreOffice 6.2 has been ported to Haiku OS
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Diver 2018-06-06 07:15:03 UTC #1
Hi there, just wanted to let everyone know that we have LibreOffice working and it already can be installed via HaikuDepot. https://depot.haiku-os.org/libreoffice
Since this is a preliminary version it has some known issues:
- It closes the very first time you launch it (it creates a user profile in ~/config/settings/libreofficedev)
- You can’t change the font - everything is rendered using the same font
- Only menubar looks native, many widgets are just bitmaps which come from the icon theme
- Some rendering problems here and there (scrollbars, listviews, etc)
- Crashes on quit sometimes
Most of the work was done by KapiX. I just wrote a few patches, a recipe and managed to build it using haikuporter with help from 3dEyes.
Some screenshots made by 3dEyes:
PulkoMandy 2018-06-06 08:31:14 UTC #2
Thanks to everyone involved for getting it running!
SamuraiCrow 2018-06-06 08:41:02 UTC #3
Excellent!! I look forward to the updates!
Diver 2018-06-06 12:22:12 UTC #4
New version with native look and feel is coming soon…
zittergie 2018-06-06 12:24:13 UTC #5
Looks very nice
BlueSky 2018-06-06 12:33:53 UTC #6
Wow…very impressive work, even if it is still a bit buggy 
Thanks a lot to everyone involved!
Diver 2018-06-06 12:35:34 UTC #7
Most of the bugs are fixed too now.
General_Edmund_Duke 2018-06-06 13:09:12 UTC #8
WOW! I haven`t expected to see it earlier than in incoming a few years! Good job!
apgreimann 2018-06-06 17:41:07 UTC #9
Very exciting! Thanks to everyone who got this marvel running!
Just two questions: What minimum version is needed, and what repo in the Depot is this available in? Thanks!
miqlas 2018-06-06 19:45:50 UTC #10
Current/current.
apgreimann 2018-06-06 21:09:21 UTC #11
Thanks! I’ll try this out tonight! 
frankps 2018-06-06 21:15:31 UTC #12
I’ve just installed latest 64 bit nightly build, but I get an error message when starting Libre Office. I’m missing libboost_locale.so.1.65.1
cocobean 2018-06-06 22:19:16 UTC #14
Depending on when you got the package, you can either install the missing packages or:
pkgman update pkgman uninstall libreoffice pkgman install libreoffice
Diver 2018-06-06 22:53:02 UTC #15
pkgman install boost165 should fix it. Will fix it later in the recipe…
frankps 2018-06-07 02:47:39 UTC #16
Thank you all for some amazing work.
Now I need to find myself an old laptop that can run Haiku natively and start using it!
Stacked_Lambda 2018-06-07 03:19:24 UTC #17
Excellent.
From the captions for the screen shots, this is LibreOffice 6.0. Correct?
I presume it is available in 32-bit and 64-bit variants?
When I have an opportunity for formal testing, I will assess how well files created/edited in LibreOffice are handled by MS Office. My current and prospective clients are using solely MS Office.
stippi 2018-06-07 12:07:16 UTC #19
Amazing! This screenshot looks quite awesome already. Is the look and feel due to updates to the Haiku look&feel in the Qt port?
Diver 2018-06-07 12:22:25 UTC #20
Yes, LibreOffice uses its own GUI toolkit - VCL.
Visual Components Library is responsible for the widgets (windowing, buttons, controls, file-pickers etc.) operating system abstraction, including basic rendering (e.g. the output device). VCL provides a graphical toolkit similar to gtk+, Qt, SWING etc.
VCL has several backends: GTK2, GTK3, Qt5 and KDE5 which is fairly new:
https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/commits/master/vcl/unx/kde5 .
Our Qt port also has BControlLook mapping, see:
https://github.com/threedeyes/qthaikuplugins/commits/master/styles .
stippi 2018-06-07 12:44:41 UTC #21
Thanks! What I meant was how is the difference between the first screenshots in the post itself and the screenshot from your comment explained? For example the scrollbars and drop-downs look native in your later screenshot. I thought the BControlLook-mapper already existed in the Qt port since a long time, I remember making changes to it myself. So if both screenshots use the same VCL backend, why does the second one look so much better?
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