Libreoffice menus

[William Unruh]

The menu items in the new Libreoffice are truely horrible. Mostrous
icons and illegibile writing. It takes up a third of the screen
(2000x100 pixels). How do I get back the old menus-- single line of
words. Using Libreoffice surely the assumption should be that the user
can read, and does not want to look at a comic book while using it!
So, can I get back the traditional menus?

[Bit Twister]

Post by William Unruh
The menu items in the new Libreoffice are truely horrible. Mostrous
icons and illegibile writing. It takes up a third of the screen
(2000x100 pixels). How do I get back the old menus-- single line of
words. Using Libreoffice surely the assumption should be that the user
can read, and does not want to look at a comic book while using it!
So, can I get back the traditional menus?

I suggest you should create a signature file with basic information about
your install/setup, for example:
echo "-- " > ~/.signature
cat /etc/release >> ~/.signature
echo "Kernel: $(uname -r)" >> ~/.signature
echo "Desktop: $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" >> ~/.signature

If you add the above to your .bash_profile or .bashrc file the
~/.signature file will always contain current information.

then add
set signature ".signature"
to your slrn rc file.

Then open slrn and post a test message to any test group to verify
your basic system information is shown.

That way subject matter experts may be able to provide better answers to
their replies.

[William Unruh]

Post by Bit Twister

Post by William Unruh
The menu items in the new Libreoffice are truely horrible. Mostrous
icons and illegibile writing. It takes up a third of the screen
(2000x100 pixels). How do I get back the old menus-- single line of
words. Using Libreoffice surely the assumption should be that the user
can read, and does not want to look at a comic book while using it!
So, can I get back the traditional menus?

Probably a good idea:

Mageia 8 updated, Libreoffice libreoffice-base-7.4.3.2-1.mga8
Plasma desktop


Since 95 % of my email goes to people who have no intrest at all in my
computer equipment, having a .signature containing that would be not
very useful or polite. But including some relevant into into my post
would be both.

Post by Bit Twister
I suggest you should create a signature file with basic information about
echo "-- " > ~/.signature
cat /etc/release >> ~/.signature
echo "Kernel: $(uname -r)" >> ~/.signature
echo "Desktop: $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" >> ~/.signature
If you add the above to your .bash_profile or .bashrc file the
~/.signature file will always contain current information.
then add
set signature ".signature"
to your slrn rc file.
Then open slrn and post a test message to any test group to verify
your basic system information is shown.
That way subject matter experts may be able to provide better answers to
their replies.

[Bit Twister]

Post by William Unruh

Post by William Unruh
The menu items in the new Libreoffice are truely horrible. Mostrous
icons and illegibile writing. It takes up a third of the screen
(2000x100 pixels). How do I get back the old menus-- single line of
words. Using Libreoffice surely the assumption should be that the user
can read, and does not want to look at a comic book while using it!
So, can I get back the traditional menus?

Mageia 8 updated, Libreoffice libreoffice-base-7.4.3.2-1.mga8
Plasma desktop
Since 95 % of my email goes to people who have no intrest at all in my
computer equipment, having a .signature containing that would be not
very useful or polite.

Sounds like a poor email client if if can not be configured to not
send/use a signature file.

Other option is to put sig fine in .slrn directory and tell slrn about it.

But including some relevant into into my post

Post by William Unruh
would be both.

Now that we have some basic info, I can say that I do not have the problem in
maga8 or mga9. Desktop is xfce.

I suggest creating a test account, say junk, logging into junk and
verify if problem still exists. IF not, it is a user account problem.
If problem exists, it it a system wide problem.

[William Unruh]

Post by Bit Twister

Post by William Unruh

Post by William Unruh
The menu items in the new Libreoffice are truely horrible. Mostrous
icons and illegibile writing. It takes up a third of the screen
(2000x100 pixels). How do I get back the old menus-- single line of
words. Using Libreoffice surely the assumption should be that the user
can read, and does not want to look at a comic book while using it!
So, can I get back the traditional menus?

Mageia 8 updated, Libreoffice libreoffice-base-7.4.3.2-1.mga8
Plasma desktop
Since 95 % of my email goes to people who have no intrest at all in my
computer equipment, having a .signature containing that would be not
very useful or polite.

Sounds like a poor email client if if can not be configured to not
send/use a signature file.
Other option is to put sig fine in .slrn directory and tell slrn about it.
But including some relevant into into my post

Post by William Unruh
would be both.

Now that we have some basic info, I can say that I do not have the problem in
maga8 or mga9. Desktop is xfce.
I suggest creating a test account, say junk, logging into junk and
verify if problem still exists. IF not, it is a user account problem.
If problem exists, it it a system wide problem.

I reinstalled libreoffice -- erasing the .config/libreoffice directory
since I was having severe problems on that machine. Before when it had
worked ( about 8 months ago since I was out of town and this is a
desktop and would not have used libreoffice on it) I had no trouble.
I found yesterday some item in one of the Options items in one of the
menu items a not on icons, with one of the options being large, small or
none. After choosing none, the menus looked much better, but
occasionally I suddenly run across a menu that has horrible icons. It
seems libreoffice has many different "Options" submenu items. I have no
idea why anyone would make "large icons" the default (or have icons at
all). I suspect that if you get rid of the .config/libreoffice directory
( or rename it so you can recover it) , so
on next run libreoffice has to repopulate it with the default, you will
see the problem.

[Bit Twister]

Post by William Unruh
I reinstalled libreoffice

I never do that unless I am testing an install script.

I suggest having a pull_updates and install_updates script which uses "script" or "tee"
to have a log of the package installed and a test after urpmi to check for success.
If not dump the log to the terminal. I use xmessage for that.

Post by William Unruh
-- erasing the .config/libreoffice directory
since I was having severe problems on that machine.

Thanks for the feedback. I never do upgrades, just clean installs so my .config
directories are pretty standard except for the Desktop Environment. I have
configuration scripts to set the xfce DM as desired using xdotool.

I gave up on plasma as my Desktop Environment (DE). Was seeing too many
problems on it and users having problems. I like xfce since I can configure
it with scripts and make it have the look, feel, and speed of the old kde DE.

[Gilberto F da Silva]

Post by William Unruh

Post by William Unruh
The menu items in the new Libreoffice are truely horrible.
Mostrous icons and illegibile writing. It takes up a third of
the screen (2000x100 pixels). How do I get back the old menus--
single line of words. Using Libreoffice surely the assumption
should be that the user can read, and does not want to look at
a comic book while using it! So, can I get back the traditional
menus?

Mageia 8 updated, Libreoffice libreoffice-base-7.4.3.2-1.mga8
Plasma desktop
Since 95 % of my email goes to people who have no intrest at all in
my computer equipment, having a .signature containing that would be
not very useful or polite. But including some relevant into into my
post would be both.

I use Seamonkey as a news reader. I configured only for the
eternal-septermber groups.


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Abraços
Gilberto F da Silva
Mageia release 9 (Cauldron) for x86_64
Kernel: 6.2.8-desktop-1.mga9
Desktop: KDE

[Gilberto F da Silva]

Post by Bit Twister

Post by William Unruh
The menu items in the new Libreoffice are truely horrible.
Mostrous icons and illegibile writing. It takes up a third of the
screen (2000x100 pixels). How do I get back the old menus--
single line of words. Using Libreoffice surely the assumption
should be that the user can read, and does not want to look at a
comic book while using it! So, can I get back the traditional
menus?

I suggest you should create a signature file with basic information
about your install/setup, for example: echo "-- " > ~/.signature
cat /etc/release >> ~/.signature echo "Kernel: $(uname -r)" >>
~/.signature echo "Desktop: $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" >> ~/.signature
If you add the above to your .bash_profile or .bashrc file the
~/.signature file will always contain current information.
then add set signature ".signature" to your slrn rc file.
Then open slrn and post a test message to any test group to verify
your basic system information is shown.
That way subject matter experts may be able to provide better
answers to their replies.

Cool.

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Abraços
Gilberto F da Silva
Mageia release 9 (Cauldron) for x86_64
Kernel: 6.2.8-desktop-1.mga9
Desktop: KDE

[Gilberto F da Silva]

Post by William Unruh
The menu items in the new Libreoffice are truely horrible.
Mostrous icons and illegibile writing. It takes up a third of the
screen (2000x100 pixels). How do I get back the old menus-- single
line of words. Using Libreoffice surely the assumption should be
that the user can read, and does not want to look at a comic book
while using it! So, can I get back the traditional menus?

I liked Staroffice but when he moved to OpenOffice/LibreOffice, it
got worse. You can try another program like https://www.freeoffice.com/e
n/

- --
Abraços
Gilberto F da Silva
Mageia release 9 (Cauldron) for x86_64
Kernel: 6.2.8-desktop-1.mga9
Desktop: KDE