libreoffice-kde no drop shadow on menus

[Britt Yazel]

When Libreoffice-kde is installed, the integration with KDE is great, but there are no drop shadows on the drop-down menus, and there is no visual color distinction between the drop down-menu and the rest of the toolbar. When the Libreoffice-kde package is removed, and the libreoffice-gnome and libreoffice-gtk packages are installed in it's place though, the kde-gtk oxygen theme has the drop shadow included and actually visually looks better than the native libreoffice-kde package. I do not think that the gtk package being on-the-go converted to match the oxygen look should have a better appearance than the actual kde package.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: libreoffice-kde 1:3.6.1~rc2-1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 2 16:55:16 2012
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-11 (21 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jim (jdblaich)]

I had the drop shadow this morning. I was removing Unity to get rid of all the lenses and other junk that was still being loaded even after I had switched to KDE. When I did this the drop shadow was removed from the KDE menus.

I find the lack of commitment to resolve a problem like this by the DEVs to be unacceptable. Anyway, these are the following apt-get commands that I issued to remove Unity. Somewhere in there is the file(s) that enable the drop shadow.

This information is taken from the /var/log/apt/history.log

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Start-Date: 2012-10-21 10:42:30
Commandline: apt-get remove unity unity-2d
Remove: ubuntu-desktop:amd64 (1.287), unity:amd64 (6.8.0-0ubuntu2), unity-2d:amd64 (6.8.0-0ubuntu2), unity-2d-common:amd64 (6.8.0-0ubu
ntu2), libunity-2d-private0:amd64 (6.8.0-0ubuntu2), lightdm-remote-session-uccsconfigure:amd64 (1.1-0ubuntu2), unity-2d-spread:amd64 (
6.8.0-0ubuntu2), unity-2d-panel:amd64 (6.8.0-0ubuntu2), unity-2d-shell:amd64 (6.8.0-0ubuntu2)
End-Date: 2012-10-21 10:42:47

Start-Date: 2012-10-21 10:44:08
Commandline: apt-get dist-upgrade
Upgrade: handbrake-gtk:amd64 (5021svnppa1~precise1, 5023svnppa1~precise1)
End-Date: 2012-10-21 10:44:15

I reinstalled the unity program here because I wanted to ensure I had purged the program and the lens.
Start-Date: 2012-10-21 10:49:46
Commandline: apt-get install unity
Install: unity:amd64 (6.8.0-0ubuntu2), unity-lens-shopping:amd64 (6.8.0-0ubuntu1, automatic)
End-Date: 2012-10-21 10:49:51

Start-Date: 2012-10-21 10:50:13
Commandline: apt-get remove unity unity-lens-shopping --purge
Purge: unity:amd64 (6.8.0-0ubuntu2), unity-lens-shopping:amd64 (6.8.0-0ubuntu1)
End-Date: 2012-10-21 10:50:18

Guake was annoying me so I removed it since I use terminator for most everything.
Start-Date: 2012-10-21 10:51:23
Commandline: apt-get remove guake --purge
Purge: guake:amd64 (0.4.4-1~ppa1)
End-Date: 2012-10-21 10:51:34

I saw some additional lenses still running in system monitor so I decided to remove them (they were running even though I was in KDE at the time).
Start-Date: 2012-10-21 10:57:41
Commandline: apt-get remove unity-lens-*
Remove: unity-lens-video:amd64 (0.3.12-0ubuntu3), unity-scope-video-remote:amd64 (0.3.9-0ubuntu1), unity-scope-musicstores:amd64 (6.8.
1-0ubuntu1), unity-lens-music:amd64 (6.8.1-0ubuntu1), unity-lens-files:amd64 (6.6.0-0ubuntu1), unity-lens-photos:amd64 (0.8-0ubuntu1),
 unity-lens-applications:amd64 (6.8.0-0ubuntu1), unity-lens-gwibber:amd64 (3.6.0-0ubuntu1)
End-Date: 2012-10-21 10:57:49

As you can see even though I told apt to remove all lenses it left many still installed. I had to uninstall them one at a time.
Start-Date: 2012-10-21 10:58:44
Commandline: apt-get remove unity-lens-applications --purge
Purge: unity-lens-applications:amd64 ()
End-Date: 2012-10-21 10:58:45

Start-Date: 2012-10-21 10:59:29
Commandline: apt-get remove account-plugin-* --purge
Purge: mcp-account-manager-uoa:amd64 (3.6.0.3-0ubuntu1), account-plugin-yahoo:amd64 (3.6.0.3-0ubuntu1), gwibber-service-identica:amd64
 (3.6.0-0ubuntu1), account-plugin-twitter:amd64 (0.8-0ubuntu2), gnom...

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

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