Monthly Archive:: June 2017

28 Jun 2017

Results from the Survey about LibreOffice Features

By Heiko Tietze On 28 June 2017 In Design, Survey, User Experience

Unused features blur the focus of LibreOffice, and maintaining legacy capabilities is difficult and error-prone. The engineering steering committee (ESC) collected some ideas of what features could be flagged as deprecated in the next release –

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28 Jun 2017

Competition for a LibreOffice Mascot

By Heiko Tietze On 28 June 2017 In Design, Visual Design

Java has the Duke, SUSE is known for its Geeko, KDE is going with Konqui, Krita welcomes you with Kiki, and Mozilla frightens the user with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. All major applications are

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17 Jun 2017

Survey on LibreOffice features

By Heiko Tietze On 17 June 2017 In Design, Survey, User Experience

Due to its long history, LibreOffice has accumulated a staggering amount of features. Maintaining these features is not free, and having a massive amount of features may blur the focus of the software. In order to steer

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16 Jun 2017

What motif for the next release do you prefer?

By Heiko Tietze On 16 June 2017 In Design, Survey, Visual Design

We asked recently for branding proposals for the upcoming release of LibreOffice. The task was also announced on the job board of the Open Source Design group and we got a couple of replies on their

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