Topic: LibreOffice

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Making LibreOffice blend in Ubuntu: Icon porting

Developer Shnatsel stopped by the OMG! Inbox! to share word an icon-based project he’s been working on that aims to help LibreOffice better 'visually' fit the rest of the Ubuntu desktop.

25 April 2011
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Document Foundation 1, Oracle 0: OpenOffice discarded, left to the community

Oracle, the "owners" of OpenOffice, have announced the discontinuation of commercial development on the popular office suite. OpenOffice will be continued as a community project. The question is: does anyone still care?

19 April 2011
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How to enable Global Menu support for LibreOffice in Ubuntu 11.04

Ubuntu 11.04 users can free up some screen space and gain desktop consistency in LibreOffice by enabling LibreOffice Global Menu support.

28 March 2011
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LibreOffice 3.3.1 released

I'm a few hours late on this one folks but LibreOffice 3.3.1 has, regardless of my attention, been released.

24 February 2011
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Work on LibreOffice application menu support progressing

Alberto Ruiz from Codethink has posted a status update on the work he's been doing on an extension to bring global application menu support to Libre Office. With Firefox and Thunderbird work already well underway this is one of the final large pieces of global application menu support left to do.

18 February 2011
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Document foundation challenge aims to raise €50, 000

The Document Foundation is aiming to raise a giant €50, 000 by March 21st - but what for and why?

16 February 2011
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Faenza icons for LibreOffice

So you've installed LibreOffice but find the default icons a bit, well, OpenOffice-y. Nab some Faenza style replacements.

4 February 2011
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LibreOffice 3.3 Released

The first stable release of the free office suite 'LibreOffice' is now available for download.

25 January 2011
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LibreOffice Release Candidate 4 available to download

The fourth release candidate of OpenOffice fork LibreOffice has been made available for download.

20 January 2011
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LibreOffice now default Office Suite in Ubuntu 11.04

The update Natty testers have been waiting for has landed: Open Office fork LibreOffice has, in an update this morning, replaced Open Office as the default office suite in Ubuntu 11.04.

20 January 2011
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Yet more LibreOffice UI mock-ups roll in…

More mock-ups for LibreOffice.

17 January 2011
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LibreOffice Ribbon UI mock-up

Microsoft Office has it, OpenOffice may/will/should/was getting something similar - but what about its' fork LibreOffice? LibreOffice user by ~usrnametaken has mocked-up what it might look like, should LibreOffice ever go down the ribbon route.

16 January 2011