libreoffice-kde does not provide the system (=KDE) file dialog

[RJVB]

This report concerns KUbuntu Trust 14.04.2 LTS and libreoffice 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2 .

LibreOffice has an option (tick box) in the general settings that allows the user to chose between LibreOffice's own file dialogs, and the "system" dialogs.

When the libreoffice-kde package is not installed, this indeed works, and one gets (what appears to be) the standard GTk file dialog for saving, opening, etc.

As soon as libreoffice-kde is installed, one always gets the LibreOffice dialog, regardless of the setting of this option. This degrades DE homogeneity, and also causes a loss of features present in the KDE file dialog but not in LibreOffice's.

Keeping libreoffice-kde uninstalled would be a workaround, but leads to worse discomfort (very ugly and heavy UI font).

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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