Loading LibreOffice

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#1

I was wandering why when loading LibreOffice on Windows one gets a green loading bar and why the loading bar is red when loading a Linux version?

Bert.

#2

What do you mean by this statement?
I use Ubuntu Linux and do not remember seeing a red loading bar, whatever you consider a loading bar is.

Is it a bar shown in the splash screen while loading the package?
Is it something to do with loading documents or installing extensions?
I do not know where this bar comes into play.

#3

See attachment.

Red loading bar in Linux.

#4

Looked at some other distro's:

Mageia beta: green
Natty: red
Lucid: red (via ppa)
openSUSE: has it's own splash screen and loading bar

Just thought I'd mention it.

Green is the theme colour, ain't it.
So I'd like it to be green always.

#5

See attachment.

The list does not allow attachments.

If you want, you could email me directly off the list using "webmaster@krackedpress.com".
I could look at the attached image from there.

#6

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Thanks for reminding me. When I rebuilt my desktop, the other day, I forgot to change my theme to one of my saved designs. I just now changed it to my green motif.

I see the load bar now. Comes with the splash screen. I wonder if it changes with localized theme colors. Actually, I like green, so I would not want to change the way it looks.

Also, I wonder why the load bar color is different between OS's. I should not change if the versions all come from the same source.

#7

I don't remember if it was red in the version I installed from the
LibreOffice website, but now that I'm using the LO that came with Ubuntu
11.04, it's definitely red. So it may be feature of the Ubuntu
variation, which has some other minor differences as well.

I haven't been able to get LO3.4 beta4 to install on Ubuntu 11.04, not
that I've spent much time attempting to do so, so I don't know if there
would be any difference.

--Jean

#8

Ah, but Linux is much about choice. Since Ubuntu has a strong liking for
purple and orange the red-orange colour (as it appears on my screen)
contrasts very nicely with the LO green. I'm just glad the position of
the LO splash screen progress bar got repositioned from where it was as
given in Ubuntu's PPA for pre-11.04 releases.

Hopefully the folks at LO are pleased that users are looking at every
tiny feature in their great product but I don't think it worth the
programming effort to provide user choices for the colour of the LO
splash screen progress bar.

Whatever the colour I'm just happy that's its LO that's loading as
provided by default in Ubuntu 11.04 - and hopefully by many other Linux
distros.

Georges

#9

Looked at some other distro's:

Mageia beta: green
Natty: red
Lucid: red (via ppa)
openSUSE: has it's own splash screen and loading bar

Just thought I'd mention it.

Green is the theme colour, ain't it.
So I'd like it to be green always.

I was wandering why when loading LibreOffice on Windows one gets a
green loading bar and why the loading bar is red when loading a Linux
version?

Bert.

What do you mean by this statement?
I use Ubuntu Linux and do not remember seeing a red loading bar,
whatever you consider a loading bar is.

Is it a bar shown in the splash screen while loading the package?
Is it something to do with loading documents or installing extensions?
I do not know where this bar comes into play.

Ah, but Linux is much about choice. Since Ubuntu has a strong liking for
purple and orange the red-orange colour (as it appears on my screen)
contrasts very nicely with the LO green. I'm just glad the position of
the LO splash screen progress bar got repositioned from where it was as
given in Ubuntu's PPA for pre-11.04 releases.

Hopefully the folks at LO are pleased that users are looking at every
tiny feature in their great product but I don't think it worth the
programming effort to provide user choices for the colour of the LO
splash screen progress bar.

Whatever the colour I'm just happy that's its LO that's loading as
provided by default in Ubuntu 11.04 - and hopefully by many other Linux
distros.

The word is that most of the distros have dumped OOo in favor of LibreOffice as their default office suite. I still see listing for GNOME and KDE office suites, but I wonder how long they will last in the repositories. That dumping of OOo may be one of the reasons that Oracle is dumping their OOo product line development and support.

Ubuntu 10.04LTS 64-bit
      running the
64-bit "LibreOffice LibreOffice 3.3.2 -- OOO330m19 (Build:202) -- tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2"
      installed from the LibreOffice download page [not repository]
shows a GREEN bar.

#10

It might be using an OS setting for the bar color.

#11

________________________________
From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sun, 8 May, 2011 5:11:24
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Loading LibreOffice

On 05/07/2011 11:58 PM, Georges Rodier wrote:

Le dimanche 08 mai 2011 à 02:29 +0200, Bert Mariën a écrit :

Looked at some other distro's:

Mageia beta: green
Natty: red
Lucid: red (via ppa)
openSUSE: has it's own splash screen and loading bar

Just thought I'd mention it.

Green is the theme colour, ain't it.
So I'd like it to be green always.

On 08/05/2011 01:42, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:

On 05/07/2011 06:49 PM, Bert Mariën wrote:

I was wandering why when loading LibreOffice on Windows one gets a
green loading bar and why the loading bar is red when loading a Linux
version?

Bert.

What do you mean by this statement?
I use Ubuntu Linux and do not remember seeing a red loading bar,
whatever you consider a loading bar is.

Is it a bar shown in the splash screen while loading the package?
Is it something to do with loading documents or installing extensions?
I do not know where this bar comes into play.

Ah, but Linux is much about choice. Since Ubuntu has a strong liking for
purple and orange the red-orange colour (as it appears on my screen)
contrasts very nicely with the LO green. I'm just glad the position of
the LO splash screen progress bar got repositioned from where it was as
given in Ubuntu's PPA for pre-11.04 releases.

Hopefully the folks at LO are pleased that users are looking at every
tiny feature in their great product but I don't think it worth the
programming effort to provide user choices for the colour of the LO
splash screen progress bar.

Whatever the colour I'm just happy that's its LO that's loading as
provided by default in Ubuntu 11.04 - and hopefully by many other Linux
distros.

The word is that most of the distros have dumped OOo in favor of
LibreOffice as their default office suite. I still see listing for
GNOME and KDE office suites, but I wonder how long they will last in the
repositories. That dumping of OOo may be one of the reasons that Oracle
is dumping their OOo product line development and support.

Ubuntu 10.04LTS 64-bit
      running the
64-bit "LibreOffice LibreOffice 3.3.2 -- OOO330m19 (Build:202) -- tag
libreoffice-3.3.2.2"
      installed from the LibreOffice download page [not repository]
shows a GREEN bar.

Georges

Hi :slight_smile:
Gnome Office and KOffice are aimed at different niche markets from LibreOffice.
Gnome Office aims at being extremely light-weight for very low-spec or ancient
machines. LibreOffice is more about functionality than lightness.

I think it would be good if The Document Foundation could run all 3 projects.
Perhaps other projects, such as the Android one, could join too. They would
need some of their people at high levels within TDF for fairness. Certain bugs
seem to be common across all projects, such as proper compatibility with MS
formats.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: