Strange button-colours in LibreOffice in 64-bit Bookworm

[lurch]

With freshly-downloaded "Full" OS images from https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/

In 32-bit Bookworm, the toolbar icons in LibreOffice Calc and Writer look correct (black lines on a light-grey background) :

but in 64-bit Bookworm, the toolbar icons are drawn with white lines on a light-grey background, which looks very odd :

[pelwell]

What happens when you activate the new Dark theme?

[lurch]

Haha, with the Dark theme the situation is reversed, with the 64-bit image then looking "good" but the 32-bit image looking "bad".

32-bit image shows black lines on dark-grey background :

64-bit image shows whie lines on dark-grey background :

[spl237]

OK, so for some reason, the 64-bit image is showing a different set of icons from the 32-bit image.

I have absolutely no idea how that can even happen, unless the 64-bit image has different build flags.

Given I don't think we change the libreoffice package ourselves any more, I suspect this is one for upstream, but I will check in the New Year.

[spl237]

OK, for some reason different builds of LibreOffice are loading different default icon themes. We just pull LibreOffice straight from Debian - we don't customise it ourselves - so this is an upstream issue and not anything we have broken, as far as I can tell.

You can manually select the icon theme you want - Tools menu, Options, View, then choose from the Icon Theme dropdown. Looks like you will need to change that depending on whether you are running 32 or 64 bit!

[lurch]

Yeah, strange. On 32-bit Bookworm it says:

$ apt policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 4:7.4.7-1+rpi1
  Candidate: 4:7.4.7-1+rpi1
  Version table:
 *** 4:7.4.7-1+rpi1 500
        500 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.com/raspbian bookworm/main armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

and defaults to the "Automatic (Colibre)" theme.

Whereas on 64-bit Bookworm it says:

$ apt policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1
  Candidate: 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1
  Version table:
 *** 4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main arm64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:7.4.7-1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main arm64 Packages

and defaults to the "Automatic (Colibre (SVG + dark))" theme.

And just to confirm, if I set LibreOffice on 64-bit Bookworm to the "Colibre" theme, then the toolbar-buttons look "correct" (i.e. the same as they do on 32-bit Bookworm). And the good news is that if you change the theme in LibreOffice Writer, it also changes the theme in LibreOffice Calc :slightly_smiling_face:

[spl237]

Ah - so the Raspbian one is being patched by plugwash - hence the +rpi1. Maybe that is the cause of the change, but it's not something I can do anything about!