LibreOffice toolbar and UI elements become ugly afrer upgrade to 5.1 - user-interface

I`ve recently upgraded LibreOffice to 5.1 from this PPA ppa:libreoffice/ppa but after that toolbar renders with ugly black background. Some other UI elements also become broken: scrollbar, global menu integration.
Ive tried to downgrade to official ubuntu version, but it didnt help.

Solution is easy - just uninstall libreoffice-gtk3 package. I think, there is not complete integration of gtk3 rendered UI with Unity. I couldn`t find any related bugs. May be there is another way to use gtk3 with LO.

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Xamarin cross-platform visual studio bottom navigation

I just started using xamarin in visual studio for building cross-platform apps, and i was searching on the internet for some tutorial etc, and i ran into a website "material.io" and i found this amazing bottom navigation
So i searched on google for a tutorial to make that bottom navigation in xamarin.forms cross-platform environment.
But i didn,'t find anything, so i hoped that someone here at stackoverflow knew how to or could provide me with code or a tutorial.
thanks in advance
As Jason already mentioned, something like this requires a custom renderer. However, you're lucky since someone has already done the hard work for you.
There's a Xamarin.Android control called BottomNavigationBar which has been ported to Xamarin.Forms in the project BottomNavigationBarXF. You'll also find an example of how to get started on the latter repository. On iOS, the control defaults to the standard page with tabs on the bottom.

Xamarin.Forms: what is the best way to create an image carousel?

I tried coule of plug-in for image carousel for Xamarin.Forms, but they are pretty old and not working fine. Trying the carousel view from Xamarin it's pretty slow and I guess has a limitation on the number of images I can add.
Anybody know how to implement a great carousel for a list of images in Xamarin.Forms ?
Thanks !!
The CarouselView is the way to go. See the link for a tutorial on how to use it.
It has been removed from 2.2.0 due to stability issues and will be temporarily placed in a separate Nuget package of most likely this link: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xamarin.Forms.CarouselView/ within a few days.
Once it is stable it will be moved back into the main nuget package.

Is it possible to enable directwrite in chrome?

I prefer google chrome in almost every way above IE10, but one thing I hate is that fonts just look much better in IE10. This especially visible with small math fonts. They look like pdf quality in IE10.
After searching a little bit, I found out that this is because IE10 use DirectWrite in windows 7/8 for font rendering. I was searching if chrome will support this in the future and I found this information:
Apr 24, 2013:
An update for everyone that's watching this one:
Our Windows font rendering is actively being worked on. Basic support
for DirectWrite is now in Skia (to update from comment #13). At the
same time, GDI was very deeply embedded in the Windows WebKit port and
is still being rooted out. We hope to have something within a
milestone or two that developers can start playing with. How fast it
goes to stable is, as always, all about how fast we can root out and
burn down any regressions.
We'll update the thread here when it's available behind a runtime flag
for y'all to try out.
Oct 8, 2013
The following revision refers to this bug:
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?view=rev&rev=159071
Changed paths: M http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink/trunk/Source/core/platform/graphics/skia/FontCacheSkiaWin.cpp?r1=159071&r2=159070&pathrev=159071
M
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink/trunk/Source/core/page/RuntimeEnabledFeatures.in?r1=159071&r2=159070&pathrev=159071
Add runtime flag for using DirectWrite on windows
Add runtime enabled feature for using the DirectWrite skia backend on
windows.
BUG=25541 R=bungeman#chromium.org, eseidel#chromium.org
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/26335002
I don't even know what a runtime flag is, but this sounds to me that it may be possible to somehow enable directwrite in chrome. Is this true ? Or should I wait a little longer before I can use directwrite font rendering in chrome ?
Sadly not yet (as of 2013-10-31, no Chromium channels supports this feature out-of-the-box).
If you look at the latest RuntimeEnabledFeatures.in, DirectWrite doesn't have any status assigned to it. According to Blink document, users cannot enable a feature via about:flags unless status=experimental is assigned.
But hopefully soon, so windows users may have a better time with web fonts :)
Update 2013-11-16: with latest issue 25541 comment, it seems we are very close to be able to enable DirectWrite in Canary.
Update 2014-01-04: Canary build now has a command line switch that can enable DirectWrite font rendering, but disabling sandbox mode are required (not safe for everyday browsing). There are also a few font rendering problem associate with it. Hopefully they can get them fixed and add this feature to about:flags soon.
Update 2014-05-09: latest Canary build (m36) now has proper support for DirectWrite within sandbox mode (implemented via issue 333029), which means developers can enable DW directly by going to about:flags#enable-direct-write. As for consumers, Google is targeting release on m37.
Update 2014-08-09: Chrome 37 beta enables DirectWrite by default, expect Chrome 37 official release to have it by default as well.
Update 2014-08-31: Chrome 37 stable release has DirectWrite enabled by default! Just note that users can still turn it off at about:flags (some of them use MacType instead).
Chrome 35 (beta) comes with an option to enable DirectWrite for Windows font rendering. Paste the following command in your address bar and click enable:
chrome://flags/#enable-direct-write
Reference: http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/22q9r9/chrome_35_beta_has_finally_fixed_windows_font/
It's currently in development for chrome on windows.
http://www.chromestatus.com/features/4725550652325888
Update: on August 26, 2014, Google updated the stable version of their Chrome browser to version 37.0.2062.94 on Windows, OS X, and Linux. With this release, Chrome move from Microsoft's Graphics Device Interface rendering method to Microsoft's DirectWrite text rendering API. Switching to DirectWrite has been requested for years by users on Windows, and Google has stated that it took significant rewriting of their font rendering engine which is why it has taken so long.
It's in Chrome as a flag as of 33 (and as of this time of writing), however from what I understand you still need to run it with the sandbox disabled via the command line --no-sandbox. This is not a recommended action for everyday use. You can enable the rendering flag, but it will only change if sandboxing is disabled.
(I would have added this as a comment to #chickenbooze, but I've switched SE accounts and don't have enough reputation yet :)

Problem with Easy Gallery in Joomla 1.5

I installed Easy Gallery on a Joomla 1.5 site and initially it worked beautifully. Then after I had installed / uninstalled a slideshow plugin, only one half of a selected image would appear in the lightbox (can't guarantee that this is the reason, but it was the only thing that I have changed). I've searched high and low for an answer. I really liked this plugin - did everything I wanted - and then something went awry. It may have something to do with slimbox, from what I've read. Also, strangely, the problem only occurred in Chrome and FireFox - in IE the images came up without any problem.
The site is getting a lot of visits at the moment and I've had to install another gallery while trying to sort this one out.

How can I downgrade from IE8 to IE7?

How can I downgrade from IE8 to IE7 on Vista?
I want to downgrade because my Flex Builder does not correctly close the browser when debugging Flex Applications. I'm sure this may be fixed in some future release of Flex Builder or IE8, but for now, I'd like to downgrade in order to debug more effeciently.
Yet another option, just click the "Fix it" button on this page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700/en-us
You can remove updates in the "Uninstall program" dialog. In the task pane on the left is a link to installed updates where you can uninstall "Windows Internet Explorer 8".
I am suggesting a standalone IE7 as an option. See if you can use your flex builder with this.
http://tredosoft.com/IE7_standalone
http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE
Here's how you uninstall it, in either Vista or XP. Go to Start > Run, and then type in (carefully), the following line:
%windir%\ie8\spuninst\spuninst.exe
I know that the question specifically mentions downgrading to IE7, but I just thought I'd mention that after successfully removing IE8 by following the instructions mentioned in PQW's link (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700/en-us) on my Windows Server 2003 machine I was left with a fully working version of IE6 and therefore didn't need to reinstall IE7.

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