OpenOffice's KDE4 Integration is unusable

Question

(I also posted about this over at the official OpenOffice forums)
Hallo,
So I'd like to report a bug to the OpenOffice people about how the KDE4 integration (with the KDE4 file dialogue) is unusable and crashes every five minutes. Through the command line I turn on KDE4 integration ( OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde4 soffice) and then after it crashes (usually when I attempt to do anything with the file dialogue), I get this:
OpenOffice.org(7949)/kdecore (services) KMimeTypeFactory::parseMagic: Now parsing "/usr/share/mime/magic"
OpenOffice.org(7949)/kdecore (services) KMimeTypeFactory::parseMagic: Now parsing "/home/kalinda/.local/share/mime/magic"
X-Error: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)
Major opcode: 152
Minor opcode: 8
Resource ID: 0x3400b5c
Serial No: 21906 (21906)
These errors are reported asynchronously,
set environment variable SAL_SYNCHRONIZE to 1 to help debugging
So I put "SAL_SYNCHRONIZE=1" into the /etc/profile.d/openoffice.sh file and then run the KDE4 integration command again, but it doesn't debug, it just gives me the same error message as above. OpenOffice ignores everything I put into the profile file. I can't force it to use KDE integration all the time either, even if I wanted to. Is there another file I should be putting this stuff into? Or do I need to recompile OOo in order to enable debugging?
This is a pretty serious issue for anyone who just installs OOo on a new KDE4 install, since it defaults to the KDE4 integration and the program is thus unusable. I'm surprised no one has fixed this yet; it's been around since before OOo 3.2.0 even came out of the beta stage. It's like someone did the bare bones code for this feature, then never bothered to bug fix it and yet they put it into a release anyway.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Ok, so apparently all I needed to do was reboot the computer in order to get the openoffice.sh file to listen to the environment variable. So now when I open OOo from my menu, it automatically uses the KDE4 integration. Unfortunately it still crashes. In order to enable debugging (I think), I tried this: OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde4 SAL_SYNCHRONIZE=1 soffice
And when it crashed, it gave me this:
OpenOffice.org(15166)/kdecore (services) KMimeTypeFactory::parseMagic: Now parsing "/usr/share/mime/magic"
OpenOffice.org(15166)/kdecore (services) KMimeTypeFactory::parseMagic: Now parsing "/home/kalinda/.local/share/mime/magic"
X-Error: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)
Major opcode: 152
Minor opcode: 8
Resource ID: 0x38011c6
Serial No: 61543 (61543)
It doesn't tell me to enable debugging anymore, but the information it provides doesn't seem like it would be helpful to the developers. I wonder if I should report the bug anyway.
Dheart wrote:Go to options -> General -> Use openoffice dialogs. This helped me when I had the problem with crashing dialogs.
Um, I don't really want to use the openoffice dialogues, as they aren't very good. I like the whole sidebar where you can add your own folders and whatnot. That's why I am alright using the GTK dialogues for now, but I still like the KDE ones more.
Last edited by Kalinda (2010-06-06 19:23:24)