Comment 5 for bug 199437

Though I fully agree with your claim for better gtk/gnome integration, I don't think this is something that can be "fixed" in ubuntu. It is an issue that has definitly to be solved upstream.

The font-issue eventually will be solved soon, switching to cairo-text-rendering (LP #197622). Fedora has done some aditional work on gtk-integration, e.g. patching ooo to use gtk-print. I'm not using Fedora, but looking at their cvs-patch-repro it seems like these additional changes are breaking kde-integration, which would result in a lot of complaints from the people using kde if ubuntu would use these patches.

The other things are not trivial to be implemented - e.g. have you ever looked at the structure of the icon-themes shipped with openoffice.org? Of course it would be nice to have the same theme that is used for the rest of the desktop, but there has to be changed a lot of code for implementing something like that, and this additionally has to work for different toolkits (on Linux this is plain X, GTK, QT) on different platforms (Win, Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac) to be accepted upstream. And this has to be done upstream, because maintaining patches with such an impact on the overall code-base is not possible.