Bug#1152491: depend on libreoffice-gtk4 instead of libreoffice-gtk3

Rene Engelhard rene at debian.org
Fri Oct 30 05:14:31 GMT 2026


Hi,

Am 29.10.26 um 23:06 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> I think it would make sense if gnome would pull in libreoffice-gtk4
> instead of libreoffice-gtk3
I don't. Not long ago it was still claimed experimental and doesn't have had much real-life exposure ...
> The only thing I'm uncertain about is the comment in libreoffice-gtk4's
> package description:
>
> "You need to enable it manually by export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk4".

.. since that is still true. The desktop detection will give you gtk3 if under GNOME (or otherwise detected afaics):


https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/refs/heads/master/vcl/source/app/salplug.cxx#170

and

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/refs/heads/master/vcl/source/app/salplug.cxx#259


(No, will NOT change that uniliterally without upstream also changing this. Too bad experience

on when we enabled gtk3 when it was premature to do so.)


Regards,


Rene



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