Re: [opensuse] revert to libreoffice 3.4 from 3.5 in openSUSE 12.1

2012. augusztus 9. 12:23 napon Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxx> írta:

Istvan Gabor píše v Čt 09. 08. 2012 v 10:26 +0200:
Hello:


Thank you Petr for your kind answer.

Opensuse 12.2 OSS repo originally had libreoffice 3.4.
The OBS LO repo and now the 'official' update repo
contains LO 3.5. Currently I have the latest official
3.5.4 update packages installed. It works.

I would like to revert to LO 3.4 since I don't like
version 3.5. I don't like that the page margins are
not shown as before and page breaks are not shown at
site but between pages.

It is not easy to make everyone happy. If you have some constructive
feedback, you might want to join discussions on the
design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list.

I did not mean this as complain. I meant only as explanation
why I wanted to degrade. Some people tends to ask in such
situations 'why do you want to do that?'. I just tried to
prevent such questions.
Discussing changes is not the topic of this thread.


Furthermore Ctrl+Shift+Home/End
combination does not select text as expected, only moves
the cursor at start or end of the document. I checked
whether the combination is occupied by KDE but there
is not such combination on my shortcut list.

I am not sure what was the reason for this change. It might be a bug or
it might fix the compatibility with other applications.

Please, check if it is reported at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/. Feel
free to report it, if it is not there.

Same as above.


My question: What is the proper way to revert to
OSS 3.4 version? Previously I removed all LO 3.5 packages
and reinstalled 3.4 but after that LO did not start with
error message:

terminate called after throwing an instance of
'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException'

independently from which LO component was called.

I guess that you have got into a mess of libreoffice packages on your
system.

I don't think so as checking rpm list both in yast and
in terminal did not show package inconsistency but config files
might have survived the downgrade.

I test different versions very often. If I want to make sure
that an older version is removed, I use the attached script:

bash lo-remove-from-system --clean

It removes only the main libreoffice packages and the main libreoffice
directories. It keeps the helper packages with dictionaries and
templates.

I did not know this method, I will try it.

Then I install the packages with the command:

zypper in libreoffice-base-extensions libreoffice-calc-extensions
libreoffice-draw-extensions libreoffice-impress-extensions
libreoffice-writer-extensions libreoffice-math
libreoffice-languagetool-en libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-kde4

You need to disable the update repo to make sure that it uses the
original 3.4 packages.

Anyway, I suggest to join the upstream development or get used to the
new version. You might need to update one day. Every update brings
something good and bad.

This is off topic but I give a short answer:
I found a discussion about the gui interface change at this thread:
http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg16736.html

Reading some of the messasges I have the feeling that it doesn't
matter what 'old style' users want. The changes will be introduced.

If I feel I can't stand them I will change to Apache openoffice
hoping that the same chnages won't be included there.

Thanks for your answer,

Istvan

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