Please participate in a survey about table styles
Some users were desperately Waiting for LibreOffice Table Styles, so this feature was implemented in one of the last year’s GSoC projects and released with version 5.3 as announced in the release notes and release videos. Although not all features have been implemented yet and, for instance, the editing dialog is missing, we want to continue with the design work and revise the inbuilt table styles.
Survey
Please vote to make this not happen.
For this purpose we asked on the mailinglist for proposals and received a number of nice ideas. Together with the existing styles we want to bring these now up to your decision. Please rate the images on a scale from strongly disagree, over disagree, neither agree nor disagree, agree, to strongly agree.
https://survey.documentfoundation.org/128518?lang=en
(Edit: Survey close, results reported at http://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2017/05/08/results-table-styles-survey/)
Of course we are interested in your first impressions. So feel free to comment here, or at the second page at the survey.
It was not clear for me what do I have to evaluate. There were some styles that looked almost great, I would change only the padding or the font to like them totally. In those cases I evaluated them lower. That is, I evaluated the styles as they are and did not consider how much modification I would still add to them.
I’d recommend looking at typographical principles and designing based on those — e.g. http://practicaltypography.com/tables.html .
While the survey does not hurt, I agree with Mirek, that following typographic advice would already result in a lot of improvements.
LibreOffice is a community-driven open source development. We do not want to design by committee and just remove the ugly styles. And table style has limitations, it will not change the content, for instance. But maybe it’s a good idea to add a paragraph to the results posting that discusses good table design in general along with Mirek’s link.
I had libre office office writer, but when I did a reset on my computer, it got locked out
via the restore app. can you get it back for me