Bug 2488226

Summary:

LibreOffice upstream recommends using --with-help=html to show Help in system browser

Product:

[Fedora] Fedora

Reporter:

Dan Williams <dan>

Component:

libreoffice

Assignee:

libreoffice-sig

Status:

CLOSED ERRATA

QA Contact:

Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>

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medium

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CC:

dtardon, erack, gwync, libreoffice-sig, mattia.verga

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libreoffice-26.8.0.2-0.4.fc45

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2026-08-07 23:56:23 UTC

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Patch switching to --with-help=html	dan: review-
v2 patch switching to --with-help=html	none

Description Dan Williams 2026-06-12 01:06:58 UTC

Upstream LibreOffice recommends using the "new" (~2018) help that displays in the system browser, but it looks like Fedora has never used that option. Is there a specific downstream Fedora decision to stick with the older built-in help window? Or just never got around to it?

External browser bits were added upstream in 3feafa82dd2cbb16423a69f7bacef5524376cc7a.

I tested switching to --with-help=html in the Fedora package and it works. Specfile changes are a bit annoying as LibreOffice doesn't put the en-US help files in a separate directory, but they are sprinkled throughout. That's being discussed upstream.

I'll attach a patch that updates the help sub packages with the new layout.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2026-06-12 01:07:54 UTC

Created attachment 2145197 [details]
Patch switching to --with-help=html

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2026-06-12 01:09:27 UTC

Created attachment 2145198 [details]
v2 patch switching to --with-help=html

Now with unrelated stuff removed...

Comment 3 Dan Williams 2026-06-12 01:10:49 UTC

Comment on attachment 2145197 [details]
Patch switching to --with-help=html

Ignore this one, it has extra unrelated stuff

Comment 4 Mattia Verga 2026-06-13 15:41:53 UTC

Thanks, I currently am in the process of updating LO in rawhide to 26.8. When things settle, I'll look at implementing your patch.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-08-07 22:07:13 UTC

FEDORA-2026-dce1e60861 (libreoffice-26.8.0.2-0.4.fc45) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 45.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-dce1e60861

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-08-07 23:56:23 UTC

FEDORA-2026-dce1e60861 (libreoffice-26.8.0.2-0.4.fc45) has been pushed to the Fedora 45 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.