Why doesn't LO/OOo look completely native?

I am not talking about the Win 98 look, but even with the gnome-integration installed buttons look a bit weird and there are sometimes black lines where there shouldn't be any. Why?

Solution 1:

It's not using the standard GTK-toolkit - I think it has its own kit... The differences are subtle and many people doesn't seem to notice. But I think it's butt-ugly :/

Even with openoffice.org-gtk and openoffice.org-gnome installed.

You can try with a different theme in ubuntu to remove thick black lines though. It's an Ambience glitch.

Solution 2:

This will be improved in LibO 3.4 --see this before-n-after screenshot: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=42337

Solution 3:

install openoffice.org-gtk and openoffice.org-gnome packages

sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-gnome

Solution 4:

To make LibreOffice look and feel in a Gnome setting copy and paste this command into the Terminal.

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gnome