One Hundred Papercuts

OpenOffice menus still have icons which should be removed

Bug #491451 reported by Rich Jones
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One Hundred Papercuts
Fix Released
Low
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openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Unassigned
Ubuntu ubuntu-10.04

Bug Description

All the GNOME apps look way better this release because the menus have the icons removed - OpenOffice did not receive this facelift, and now it looks extremely cluttered. The debate is settled - icons in menus are bad news. OO.o needs to get with the times!

A very simple fix, as well.

Tags: patch
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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Wishlisting as this is an enhancement.

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

Well OOo is not a Gnome app but it appears this can be done. This currently can be done via Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->View->"Show icons in menus", so it probably would be possible to disable this by default somehow.

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.04
status: New → Triaged
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Rich Jones (richwjones) wrote :

Perfect solution - who will apply this?

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Rich Jones (richwjones) wrote :

Nobody gonna step up and fix this?

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Rich Jones (richwjones) wrote :

Alllllloooo

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Vish (vish) wrote :

Rich Jones , patience... ;-)
The bug has already been scheduled for Ubuntu 10.04. So , no need to bump bug reports.

You can help speedy the bug resolution by providing patch , Or if you aernt a hacker you can try to get the attention of people who can... :-)
We are running _really_ low on people who actually fix the papercut bugs. Thanks!

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
importance: Undecided → Low
milestone: none → lucid-round-10
status: New → Triaged
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Oli (oli) wrote :

Please only apply this if it respects the gconf entry. Lots of people turned icons back on (because context icons make a lot of sense to us!) so it's going to be very annoying if some applications (like OO) start having no icons while all the other apps do.

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Rich Jones (richwjones) wrote :

Oli - can you test to see if it does?

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Luke Symes (allsymes) wrote :

I found the relevant source file here: http://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo/tags/OpenOffice_3_2_0/shell/source/backends/gconfbe/gconfbackend.cxx
Although I'm not sure if this is the latest version for Ubuntu, openoffice source too big for me to download right now, but I have made a patch based on the above file.

Could someone maybe test it out with Lucid's OpenOffice source?

tags: added: patch
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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

This appears to be fixed already in Lucid as we have 3.2.0 and I don't see the icons anymore by default (eg with a clean .openoffice.org directory).

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Luke Symes (allsymes) wrote :

@Chris Cheney: As per Comment #7, could you please check whether OpenOffice is respecting the gconf desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons setting? If not, I will look into this further to solve that related issue.

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Luke Symes (allsymes) wrote :

Ok, I checked it myself. All works as it should when changing the gconf key desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons

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