On 27 July 2011 14:06, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@novell.com> wrote:
> Hi Knut, > > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 23:20 +0200, Knut Olav Bøhmer wrote: > > > Sadly I don't know. I imagine you need to avoid the splash > binary - and > > > run soffice.bin. I would be tempted to remove soffice.exe rename > > > soffice.bin -> soffice.exe and debug that way. > > > > I found it. > > devenv /debugexe program args > > Great ;-) > > > I had to "cd URE\bin\" because I got an error message about sal3.dll. > > Why does we have two binaries? > > Well - one in theory is a small binary that passes its arguments to > the > main 'factory' process that is running: this speeds up the 2nd launch. > Unfortunately the 'small-ness' of that binary is bloated to (was it 3 or > 6 Mb I forget) by all the embedded icons needed for associating that > with the umpteen file-types we support [ or something ]. > > > > Oooh ! and if you can build / debug on windows :-) perhaps you could > > > help fix the dumb-ness that we duplicate many megabytes of icons > between > > > soffice.bin and soffice.exe (?) it requires only a small set of hacks I > > > think. > > > > Do you have more information? > > Those same icons are then all present in soffice.bin as well in > order > to get window icons correct. Instead of that we should just be loading > the window icons from our images.zip [ where they also live ], and > setting them on the window at run-time I think. > > That is what we do for the gtk+ backend, cf. GtkSalFrame::SetIcon > and > just needs replicating for Windows - so we can drop that duplication. > gtk+ has a means of doing this for windows, so there is the API support > there somewhere. > Now that I have my DDEInitiate-bug-workaround tested (and it works) I have some more time to do this. I think I should first find a solution to the DDEInitiate bug in LibreOffice, then I could start to work on the icon isssue. It sounds doable, as I can look in to what the Gtk version does. I have updated the bug-report at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/process_bug.cgi Should the icon-issue be registered in the bugtracking system? -- Knut Olav Bøhmer
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