Bright side of LibreOffice

LibreOffice has a very useful sidebar so it’s time to make them shiny even more. I made an proposal for an sidebar upgrade.

Sidebar layout proposal

LibreOffice use two different Sidebar layouts

left: where widgets are in two columns and the label is above the widget
right: where the labels are left and the widgets right

I’m happy with both layouts, but I would prefer to have for one specific task only one Layout.

For example, the text sections will be visible when you select text and when you write text in a table, so it should be natural that both sections use the same layout as you can see in the screenshot.

On the right there is a drawing selected so all sections should have the same layout as you can see in the left screenshot. If you think, true but where is the change request, start your LibreOffice and check out the sidebar.

I already start to write bug report’s for so that everybody can give transparent feedback.

~~Consistent alignment for Image BUG 136101 and Position and Size BUG 136099~~ done
with consistent widget usage BUG 136125
New effect section where glow, shadow, soft edge will be grouped together BUG 136073
Style commands for writer BUG 136072
New Sections for 3d settings BUG 136145 and Fontwork BUG 136140
Remove separate list section in impress/draw BUG 136075

So I hope to get some feedback the global [META] bug to see the improvement will be BUG 103459

Network gallery style

What do you prefer black/gold or blue/blue? The user can change the line color, area color and shadow color (highlight color) so with 3 clicks you can switch, but I prefer a good default.

please comment your feedback.

Bullet images update

LibreOffice 7.0 will get new bullet imges. Hope you like them. In general you can use whatever image you like, want or find from the internet, so in the Bullet image dialog there are the following examples:

Fontwork update

Jun Nogata help the LibreOffice community with new Fontwork. And now it’s ready to be in use.

It’s already in master. As not all great Artwork landed in master, I will offer an extension for additional Fontwork stuff.

A lot of work going on this days. If you like my work become a

Icon gallery

I submit a new gallery for LibreOffice called Icons. It show some usefull icons/symbols which can be used in all LibreOffice apps. If you search for app icons they area already available in the GUI widget prototyping extension.

Please test the extension and give me feedback.

Arrows gallery

For the LibreOffice 7.0 release I work on galleries. One which is ready for testers is a new/updated arrows gallery.

You can test the arrow gallery by install the extension (upload to the extension page was done. Pending for the review.)

Image Compression

Finally LibreOffice image compression did what you expect. Shrink your image or the impress presentation and don’t destroy your pictures.

Old default settings were 90 for JPEG Quality and reduce image resolution to 96 DPI.

New settings are 80 for JPEG Quality and reduce image resolution to 300 DPI. It frustrate me for long time that with 96 DPI all images that will be compressed with LibreOffice are blurred and didn’t fit in any case. After write Bug 128658 and nobody fixed the bug for me, I fixed it myself with 7 lines of code 🙂

The best bug report are the reports you can fix yourself. Be proud of yourself fill bug reports and fix them yourself.

AutoCorrect Dialog

I add an additional item on my (very long) todo list:

Update LibreOffice Dialogs

One Dialog is finished AutoCorrect tdf#127773 (left 6.3, right 6.4)

In addition to an better placement the Word Completion Tab should be now easier to understood.

Character Dialog tdf#127927, Paragraph Dialog tdf#128239 and > 100 Dialogs are on my todo list. If you like my work, become a

GUI widget prototyping

Hi,

If you think nothing happens in LibreOffice, that’s not true. I for example prepair some new Templates and Galleries for LibreOffice.

If you are interested, join the LibreOffice Design Team.

pin gallery

this is the simpliest extension I ever did, but it’s also one of the coolest.

https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions

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This extension add you an 📌 pin gallery on top of each galleries so if you switch to galleries you can drag & drop your favorite drawings, images, … simple but usefull.