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 just add numbers in square brackets like [1] in engineering whereas humanities show name and year like (author, year).…
19 Dec 2018
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 browse through the list and to search for glyphs contained in the selected font.…
5 Nov 2018
Quick poll on the design of the Karasa Jaga icon theme
Update (March 2023): This survey is closed. You can see on GitHub that borders were changed to blue. The post below is still available to read but links to the survey have been removed.
The icon theme Karasa Jaga has been introduced in release 6.1.…
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.
Background images
LibreOffice ships some images by default to fill the background of shapes.…
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 the review, it just overlaps the text when editing, as long the information is not shown in the document margin (tdf#34355) or if you don’t use the Track Changes deck in the sidebar for some reason.…
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 start into easyhacking?
Commands
As explained in the posting on How to set up your environment, you can always search for unique strings.…
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 and use cases, and finally iterating with product design and development.…
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 for font substitution and now it is time to talk about font listing.…
22 Dec 2017
LibreOffice mascot – lesson learned and an apology
By Italo Vignoli On 22 December 2017 In Uncategorised
With many approaching the holiday season, it looks like the heated discussions about the LibreOffice mascot have settled down. It is probably too early to re-launch the project, as memories of what has happened in October and November are still rather fresh, and so we would like to share our thoughts and plans on this project with you before we the next steps are taken.…
20 Nov 2017
Statement about LibreOffice Mascot Project
By Italo Vignoli On 20 November 2017 In Uncategorised
On Thursday, we came to the conclusion to close voting for the LibreOffice mascot in advance of the planned schedule in December. For a number of reasons, the process has evolved in a direction we were not expecting. When we started, we were looking for a visual image which could represent LibreOffice, a free office suite developed by an international and diverse community of friends, and not for a subject of heated discussions between groups and individuals.…