LibreOffice is an application with a large number of expert features, and though aimed to be easy to use there are always surprising shortcuts to achieve a goal. We post every day a tip on Twitter,
Easyhack Archive
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
23 Oct 2017
LibreOffice Extension: How to Bundle Icon Themes
Making LibreOffice more flexible is one of our primary goals announced with the MUFFIN concept. Extensions are a great way for personalization and just like we did for color palettes, we’ve now made icon themes
29 Mar 2017
LibreOffice Extension: How to Export the Custom Palette
Good usability means keeping software simple by supporting only those use cases that are relevant for the majority of users. But not everyone is happy with changes and misses functions for special workflows. That happened for the
16 Jan 2017
DIY UI: How to create your own Notebookbar
Introduced recently with the MUFFIN concept, the Notebookbar is a blank canvas where controls can be placed and arranged freely. It offers all freedom to users who are not afraid to fiddle around with an
31 Aug 2016
Tickets on behalf of UX
By Heiko Tietze On 31 August 2016 In Easyhack
The simplest way to contribute to LibreOffice is to submit bugs and enhancement requests to our bugtracker. This is also true for design and usability related issues, where up until
17 Jun 2016
Easyhackers wanted!
LibreOffice is a community-driven product, meaning you don’t only help the development by filing bug reports and writing ideas for features. You can do even more. Quite a few of the tickets in the bug tracker have