Comment 13 for bug 127944

I found a better workaround...as was mentioned, installing the old package breaks a lot of things, specially Pidgin icons which I couldnt seem to bear...so, I updated the GTK2 library to the newest version, and I dumped the contents of the old package (more exactly the contents of CONTENTs/usr/lib) to /usr/lib/openoffice/program. This does the trick, and the other apps keep working just fine. Obviously, once this issue is solved, I'll have to delete the extracted files.
By the way, without the workaround I can open "soffice", and check the configuration. However, when I enter the "Fonts" item it hangs (it does not hang with the workaround in place). The exact same thing also happens with the "Languages" item (I have spanish localization installed).