As we have 4 different VCL backends on linux, it would be useful for a user copies the version information from the About dialog, that it also mention which backend is being used. @Meeks: Awaiting your pointers. :D
Ooh - so, this can probably be an easy-hack. If you look in: vcl/source/app/svapp.cxx: OUString Application::GetHWOSConfInfo() We need to append the result of: OUString Application::GetToolkitName() to the string we return in a sensible way. That shows up in the Help->About dialog and is really useful for QA. Thanks !
Setting needsDevEval due to missing code pointer.
(In reply to jan iversen from comment #2) > Setting needsDevEval due to missing code pointer. Ups it is there, sorry, my BZ did not like me.
Hey, I would like to take a stab at this. The about dialog box in my build (5.3) has the information in this manner - Version; Build-ID; CPU Threads; OS Version; UI Render; Locale; Calc: Where would you like to add the VCL information, In between which parameters or at the beginning or the end ? Thanks.
(In reply to Sudarshan K from comment #4) > Hey, I would like to take a stab at this. > The about dialog box in my build (5.3) has the information in this manner - > Version; Build-ID; CPU Threads; OS Version; UI Render; Locale; Calc: > Where would you like to add the VCL information, In between which parameters > or at the beginning or the end ? > Thanks. I personally would add it at the end, but that is really a minor detail, only you have the code, position is a matter of moving it around in the ui file.
Do I also need to edit a ui file ? Where might that be(In reply to jan iversen from comment #5) > (In reply to Sudarshan K from comment #4) > > Hey, I would like to take a stab at this. > > The about dialog box in my build (5.3) has the information in this manner - > > Version; Build-ID; CPU Threads; OS Version; UI Render; Locale; Calc: > > Where would you like to add the VCL information, In between which parameters > > or at the beginning or the end ? > > Thanks. > > I personally would add it at the end, but that is really a minor detail, > only you have the code, position is a matter of moving it around in the ui > file. Do I also need to edit a ui file ? Where might that be ? Thanks.
(In reply to Sudarshan K from comment #6) > Do I also need to edit a ui file ? Where might that be(In reply to jan > iversen from comment #5) > > (In reply to Sudarshan K from comment #4) > > > Hey, I would like to take a stab at this. > > > The about dialog box in my build (5.3) has the information in this manner - > > > Version; Build-ID; CPU Threads; OS Version; UI Render; Locale; Calc: > > > Where would you like to add the VCL information, In between which parameters > > > or at the beginning or the end ? > > > Thanks. > > > > I personally would add it at the end, but that is really a minor detail, > > only you have the code, position is a matter of moving it around in the ui > > file. > > Do I also need to edit a ui file ? Where might that be ? How else would you add something to the ui...unless of course you pack it into another field. ui files are in the same module, search for *.ui > Thanks.
Hi Sudarshan, There is already a patch in gerrit to fix this - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/29798/
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #8) > Hi Sudarshan, > > There is already a patch in gerrit to fix this - > https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/29798/ Yeah another case of missing assignment, seems I overlooked this one, sorry for that. We tell contributors who work on easy hacks to assign them, so others can see they are being worked on. However Sudarshan, plenty of other hacks for you to work on. Yousuf@ thanks for highlighting this.
@Sudarkshan: If you'd like to take on another about dialog enhancement, give bug 79438 a try for adding the release date. @jan: anytime. :D
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #10) > @Sudarkshan: If you'd like to take on another about dialog enhancement, give > bug 79438 a try for adding the release date. > > @jan: anytime. :D Oh :( Never mind, I will take a look at the other bug.
Ashod Nakashian committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6b5b773488a4ab77b5c18d82e663e68692f14b33 tdf#103185 - Add VCL backend being used to About dialog It will be available in 5.3.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Ashod Nakashian committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-2": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ec0475d2124b5270fc1a2a8ccfaa354e931193bc&h=libreoffice-5-2 tdf#103185 - Add VCL backend being used to About dialog It will be available in 5.2.4. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.