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LibreOffice 4.0 released

LibreOffice 4.0 released

Posted Feb 8, 2013 3:21 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: LibreOffice 4.0 released by cesarb
Parent article: LibreOffice 4.0 released

Glade? Hardly, LibreOffice uses its own GUI Toolkit (VCL), not Gtk.


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LibreOffice 4.0 released

Posted Feb 8, 2013 6:17 UTC (Fri) by jbicha (subscriber, #75043) [Link]

No, he's right. LibreOffice has begun moving to using .ui files:

http://blogs.linux.ie/caolan/2013/01/24/converting-libreo...

LibreOffice 4.0 released

Posted Feb 8, 2013 8:14 UTC (Fri) by Uraeus (subscriber, #33755) [Link]

How it works is that you create your dialogs using the Glade tool, and save it as a .ui file, which is a XML file. Then there is another tool that converts the XML file to use VCL instead of Gtk+.

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