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.…
18 Feb 2018
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.…
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 to be ultra slick and professional – it isn’t a replacement for the official branding and logos that we use in the software, website and marketing materials.…
13 Nov 2017
LibreOffice Mascot: Iterating the submissions
tl;dr: Please comment at https://imageboard.documentfoundation.org/posts
The voting phase has been conducted with great success. More than 27,000 people had a look at the submissions and many voted on all items. Thanks a lot for your interest and contribution! There has also been some discussion on various social media channels about the procedure.…
8 Nov 2017
Community-vote for the new ‘Getting Started Guide’ cover
By Heiko Tietze On 8 November 2017 In Survey
The new release 6.0 of LibreOffice is just around the corner. And we also want to update the documentation for this release. We have three proposals for new covers and would like to know which one you prefer.
Please vote by clicking option 1, 2 or 3 below and submit per “vote”.…
28 Oct 2017
Improvements to Lists in LibreOffice Impress
Enumeration of lists is one of the most struggled features in LibreOffice Impress. That is clear from the issues reported on Bugzilla tdf#103364 and tdf#103369 with over 100 bugs and enhancement requests, but also when asking users. A usability test was conducted at the city of Nantes revealed some of the major problems that we want to tackle now.…
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 available as extensions. This blog post describes how to create and share your own icon theme extension.…
28 Sep 2017
A Flock of Hummingbirds: On the Search for the LibreOffice Mascot
tl;dr: Please vote on the LibreOffice Mascot until Oct/08th at https://survey.documentfoundation.org/665628 (survey expired)
Additional to the unique branding of LibreOffice today, we want to introduce an alternative to TDF’s trademarked logo/icon elements that can be used by the community with minimal restrictions.…
26 Sep 2017
Default Margins that Users Apply in LibreOffice Writer
Earlier this year we run a survey about default margins in LibreOffice Writer. The results should prove that the default settings are what users apply in most cases.
For the first question, What should LibreOffice Writer’s default page margin should be?…