Fedora Core 5, OpenOffice and KDE

I'm tested how OpenOffice 2.0.2 (2.0.1) work in KDE 3.5.3 (3.5.2) and found some problem. If you start OpenOffice with full KDE integration, all UI elements (menu, toolbars) rendered very slow and mouse response unacceptable. If I'm start OpenOffice direct, i.e. trough soffice.bin all works fine. In GNOME and XFCE4 all works without any glitches, fast and smoothly. Now I'm use gtk widgets over KDE to fix this problem.
Put to Your .bashrc or .bashrc_profile:

  1. OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome
  2. SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk
  3. export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN
  4. export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP

With this settings OpenOffice looks good, and UI work fine.

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