While Mozilla and Google have received a lot of press attention for their Windows RT antitrust worries, nobody’s yet spoken up about the antitrust nature of Microsoft allowing only its own office suite to run as part of Windows RT’s Classic environment. While it’s difficult to port a browser to Metro, it would take years … Continue reading »
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We have a Google Plus page!
If you’re a Google+ user, you’ll be happy to know that we finally got around to creating a Google+ page for the LibreOffice Design team: https://plus.google.com/102673546895803839652/posts If you’d like to follow LibreOffice’s design progress or hear about the things we’re working on and how you can help, go add us to your circle. P. S. … Continue reading »
Make LibreOffice Look Better
On Tuesday, I’m meeting Jan Holešovský, aka. Kendy, to discuss some ways to improve the look of LibreOffice with small and simple changes, in the sense of removing the black bars between the ruler and the document background. If you have any ideas, please post them in the Comments section below.
Call for Templates
As part of the Google Summer of Code, we’re redesigning the template dialog. And with a new template dialog, we need some new, good looking templates, as the ones we have now are pretty awful. Don’t be afraid to submit your own template. We need lots of templates and if we find that yours is … Continue reading »
Rare Opportunity at Making a Difference!
The LibreOffice Design team is asking for designs for three projects that have been accepted into Google Summer of Code (that means that they’re more than likely to be implemented): An ODF viewer for Android, a revamped Templates dialog, and a smarphone remote for Impress. See the Design page for more information and to get … Continue reading »
Calligra Suite
On April 11, Calligra Suite came out — forgive me for taking so long to write a post about it. It turns out that I don’t hate the UI as much as I thought I would, though I still prefer that of both Google Docs (and, to a lesser degree, LibreOffice) by a considerable amount. … Continue reading »
Submit your icons
If you’d like to help with the icon set, head on over to the official wiki page. There’s a new topic to design for every week. Each week, we discuss and refine the previous week’s proposals.
Making the clipboard usable
When I was a kid, I didn’t know what the icon with the scissors did. I didn’t know what the icon with the two papers did. Even after I learned what copying and pasting is, even after I knew the common “Ctrl+C”, “Ctrl+X”, and “Ctrl+V” shortcuts, I still didn’t know what those scissor and paper … Continue reading »
Notice Google Docs’ New Style Management?
I’ve just noticed a revamped style drop-down in Google Docs. Apparently, it’s been there since February 7th. It makes customizing styles simple, plus it gives a preview of the style (font, bold, italic, underline, and size up to a certain limit). It’s probably the best style gallery that’s out there to date. If only it … Continue reading »
Looking for an icon designer
The LibreOffice design team is looking for an experienced icon designer to oversee an effort to create a flat icon set for LibreOffice. The designer wouldn’t have to create any icons (although he would be more than welcome to), he would simply help craft guidelines and act as a mentor and a guide for inexperienced … Continue reading »
