Application menu support for LibreOffice 3.4.1
The extension mentioned in the other posts only works for x86_64!
So if you have a 32bit Ubuntu, as I do, that won't work for you.
I found a way to make it work, tough. Certainly, it's not the most elegant way, since I have no idea how to create a Libreoffice extension from source.
You can download the modified extension for 32bit here: lo-menubar.oxt Download it, open it, agree in Libreoffice to install it, restart Libreoffice.
I hope I didn't violate any licenses…
If you don't trust me or your just curious what I did, here is what I did:
Download the extension that was mentioned in the other answers: lo-menubar.oxt
Get the 32bit deb from the Ubuntu repositories. Open a terminal and enter:
apt-get download lo-menubar
If you didn't change the directory, a file called *lo-menubar_0.1.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb* should be in your home folder.
Now open lo-menubar.oxt with the archive manager: Right click on the lo-menubar.oxt, open with archive manager (I hope it's called like that, I am using Ubuntu in German)
Now both files should be open, each in an archive manager window.
In lo-menubar.oxt:
- Remove the Linux_x86_64 folder
- Change into the folder META-INF
- Extract manifest.xml (just drag it onto your desktop)
- Right click on the extracted manifest.xml - open it with a text editor
- Find *platform=Linux_x86_64"* and change it into *platform=Linux_x86"*
- Find *Linux_x86_64/menubar.uno.so"* and change it into *Linux_x86/menubar.uno.so"*
- Save the manifest.xml and close your text editor
- Drag the manifest.xml back into the archive manager, which has lo-menubar.oxt opened, to overwrite that file
- Go back to the root folder of lo-menubar.oxt, keep it open.
Open the lo-menubar_0.1.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb with the archive manager: Right click on lo-menubar_0.1.0-0ubuntu1_i386.deb, open with archive manager
- Change into the folder: /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/menubar/
- Drag the Linux_x86 folder into the lo-menubar.oxt
Close everything and open the lo-menubar.oxt. Restart Libreoffice.
I'm sorry for jumping the gun on this, as I didn't noticed I wasn't running the latest version.
This should work for libreoffice 64 bit
The debs from
LibreOffice.org won't use Ubuntu's libreoffice-gtk
package and installs to /opt
breaking lo-menubar package, not the code...
However the standalone extension mentioned by DoR does work out of the box.
If it doesn't try to reinstall LibO 3.4.1 properly:
cd
to the folder with LibO debs- Remove older versions:
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice* lo-menubar
- Install Libre Office:
sudo dpkg -i *.deb desktop-integration/*.deb
- Install the lo-menubar extension (v0.1.0)
- Close LibreOffice for the changes to take effect.
Note: The menubar doesn't work on Start Center and it may cause visual artifacts in its UI, its a known issue.