Bug#836531: libreoffice-gtk3: LibreOffice is unusable slow with XFCE4

[Andreas Brogle <anbro@ok.de>]

Am Sun, 4 Sep 2016 11:44:00 +0200
schrieb Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>:

Hello,

> Well, but you installed libreoffice-gtk3 manually. (Or do you have
> libreoffice-gnome installed even for your xfce?) What do other users
> of your desktop use?

Can't remember, I guess the package was recommendet by another one.
My family has the choice to use the desktops kde, gnome or xfce by lxdm.
They voluntarily selected xfce, because it is fast, simple and clear.
 
> You don't need to, given you are the admin of the machine, not your
> wife and your daughter.

Hey, easy, we are living in patriarchal, hierarchical structure ;-) 
I teached my daughter to do an upgrade from time to time herself.
That is better than doing nonsense with the machine, as playing games
all the day.

Let's put aside the details, it seems to be the broader topic of the
two parallel universes of programmers and users. ;-)

> > I assume there is some kind of mechanism of libreoffice to detect
> > the environment it is running in. Would it be a great thing to say
> > libreoffice to use -gtk2 if running under xfce and to forbid to use
> > -gtk3? I can't imagine that would need more than minimal efford.  
> 
> Yes, there is.

O.K., that is to high for me to help myself. But such negligibilities
often are relevant for users to keep on that ugly windows.

Best regards,
Andreas