The keyboard layout on Apple computers is special and some keys are missing. For example there is no Insert key to toggle between insert and overtype. LibreOffice supports the function and you can switch by clicking
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19 Dec 2018
Save the bibliography?
LibreOffice has the capability to add references to a document and finally a bibliographical index, which is essential for scientific publications. The style of references depend on the journal and the discipline. So it is common to
14 Dec 2018
Special Characters: The Final Touch
Last year we revised the workflow to insert special characters. Based on a design proposal the dialog was reimplemented in a Google Summer of Code project by Akshay Deep. The new dialog allows to easily
5 Nov 2018
Quick poll on the design of the Karasa Jaga icon theme
The icon theme Karasa Jaga has been introduced in release 6.1. It was originally created for Sundara OS and is heavily inspired (and derived) from the discontinued Oxygen icon. The icon designer Rizal Muttaqin seeks
8 Aug 2018
What’s new in LibreOffice 6.1 regarding user experience
By Heiko Tietze On 8 August 2018 In Design, Icon Design, User Experience, User Interface, Visual Design
The LibreOffice community regularly publishes new releases, and the latest version, 6.1, is released in August 2018. The design team worked hard to make this release as shiny as it deserves; here’s what we did.
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14 Apr 2018
Easyhacking: How to make a feature optional
By Heiko Tietze On 14 April 2018 In Easyhack
Working on the user experience often means making a feature optional. Some users may need a feature while others may find it distracting. An example is the tooltip shown on tracked changes.
While this tooltip is useful for
28 Feb 2018
Easyhacking: All about terminology
Sometimes you may find galimatias in the user interface such as quirky captions, misleading descriptions, too long or to short texts, and strings that are not compliant to the guideline. Why not take this as the perfect
22 Feb 2018
Easyhacking: How to set up your environment
By Heiko Tietze On 22 February 2018 In Easyhack
User-centered development is implicitly steering the development from the top of the cathedral. That means to start with a vision, the context of use, and the primary users etc, granularized later into product requirements with storyboards
18 Feb 2018
Improvements to Font Listing
Font handling is a major topic for office suites and as a result, LibreOffice’s bug tracker has numerous reported issues and suggestions on how to enhance the workflow. In a past blog post, we presented a solution
16 Nov 2017
LibreOffice mascot survey: The progress so far
As you’ve no doubt seen, over the last few months we’ve been looking for a LibreOffice mascot. This is just something fun for our community to use, for instance on T-shirts at events, so it doesn’t have