LibreOffice 6.4.4 is coming!

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 11. Jun 2020, at 17:10, Dima Panov <fluffy at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> We know, all FreeBSD users waits for new release of LireOffice.
> And now it almost here.
> But before land it to the ports, we want to inform community about some important changes to build options.
> 
> At first, GTK3 option is not more set by default and there are the reasons:
> a) our gtk30 port and all needed gnome dependencies are dramatically outdated
> b) LibreOffice64’s gtk3 visual content library is broken — missed critical buttons, dropdown menus, scrollbars
> c) previously uses gtk2 vcl is dropped upstream since LibreOffice 6.4.0 is branched
> 
> Second, we decided to make QT5 VCL option is set by default to provide comfy visual style for every users. One small note — since upcoming Qt5-5.15 will drop binary support for FreeBSD 11.x due to outdated OpenSSL 1.0 in base, here is not reason to enable QT5 option on FreeBSD <12+ by default.
> 
> Release will be landed to the ports at this weekend.
> 
> Early access, as always, available at out WIP stage on GitHub:
> https://github.com/lwhsu/freebsd-ports-libreoffice
> 
> Discussions, patches, proposals are welcome.
> 
> We're sorry for the inconvenience.
> 

Thanks for the notice and your work, much appreciated.

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