LibreOffice build on Windows with ccache for MSVC
I have just revived my 4 years old hack that adds MSVC support to ccache. The use case is a bit limited - you have to use it from inside cygwin; but that is exactly what LibreOffice needs :-) So I have...
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Toolbar improvements
On Friday, I was able to spend a bit of time on UI hacking which I love. Those small and tiny pieces that when combined, do a big difference - do you remember my GSoC task proposal in this area? ;-)...
View ArticleLibreOffice v češtině
Chcete si stáhnout LibreOffice? Doporučím vám tedy stránky LibreOffice v češtině, abyste se k instalátoru nemuseli dostávat přes anglické stránky :-) LibreOffice 3.4 má uživatelské rozhraní kompletně...
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Improved Rulers
Recently I was able to spend a bit of time on the UI hacking again; and this time it was the "Rulers" in Writer. Thanks to Mirek M. (BTW, have you seen his Call for GSoC projects designs, and Call for...
View ArticleLibreOffice Tutorial Videos
A user just asked on IRC how to print a serie of descriptions of photos, when he has a list in a spreadsheet. I answered that Mail Merge is what he is searching for - but he did not know what Mail...
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LibreOffice HackFest in Munich: Apply Style Combobox
The first day of the LibreOffice HackFest in Munich is nearly over, and I am happy to say that I've already achieved what I wanted to hack on: This is how the "Apply Style" combo box looks like from...
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LibreOffice 4.0: Use Firefox Personas in your favorite office suite
At the very last minute, my patches to support Firefox Personas in LibreOffice were accepted as a late feature for 4.0, hooray! :-) What does it mean? Personas are easy-to-use themes that let you...
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Recent documents in LibreOffice
This is again one of those little improvements that make LibreOffice much more usable, and that I so much love hacking on. I implemented a dropdown for the Open toolbar button that brings an easy...
View ArticleMoved my blog
Recently I decided to update my blog to something that will be less awkward than NanoBlogger I have been using until now. I mean, writing the entries in vim is great, running the nb script is easy, but...
View ArticleLibreOffice 4.2: Better Windows bug reports
If you are not a programmer, and still want to help LibreOffice, there are many ways; one of them is submitting good bug reports. And a good bug report means a report with as much information as...
View ArticleHelp needed: Translating Getting Started Guide to Czech (or Slovak)
Standa Horáček just posted information about a shared effort to translate the LibreOffice Getting Started Guide to Czech and Slovak Language. You can find more information also in the original post by...
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Story of the New Start Center in LibreOffice 4.2
LibreOffice 4.2 has been released - have you tried it? If yes, you might have experienced the new start center that looks about like this:Many people have contributed to it, and this is going to be a...
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FOSDEM: How the Text in Writer Gets on the Screen
At FOSDEM 2014 I had a short presentation about how the text gets drawn in Writer. It is mostly an explanation of the backtrace you get when you stop the drawing at the right time; hopefully it is...
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Improved OS X look of the upcoming LibreOffice 4.3
The last week, just after FOSDEM, I was one of the lucky ones who participated in the LibreOffice UX Hackfest that was generously hosted by +Betacowork.We achieved a lot (incomplete list - many haven't...
View ArticleLibreOffice GSoC user interface tasks
If you are a student, love programming, and want to have fun & earn some money at the same time, you should really consider applying for Google Summer of Code 2014. And choose LibreOffice as the...
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Removing files from the recent documents list
I participated in the Gran Canaria LibreOffice Hackfest recently, and once again, it was a great one :-) - I am looking forward to the next hackfest from the very minute I boarded the plane home.As...
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DrawingLayer: What Should You Know about It, and my other LibreOffice...
At the LibreOffice Conference 2014, I had three presentations. The first one was about DrawingLayer, one of the core technologies in LibreOffice that is not known enough, which consequently leads to...
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LibreOffice Design: Easy Hacks
LibreOffice 4.4 has got many user interface improvements - but there's still much more to do. I've just had a talk at FOSDEM about how anybody can help, join our team!Click the slide to see the...
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LibreOffice Design Team
On Sunday, I had one more talk, this time a general one about the LibreOffice Design Team. It was in the Open Source Design Devroom at FOSDEM.I think it this was the first year when this devroom took...
View ArticleUsing Icecream to speed up the LibreOffice Android build
Lots of us is using Icecream distributed compiler for the LibreOffice development. It is usually the first thing we set up at a hackfest, to speed up the build for everybody (given that it only seldom...
View ArticleStabilising LibreOffice Viewer for Android
At the end of the last week we released the new version of LibreOffice Viewer for Android, and I must say, it is a pretty solid release. The app is still in Beta, and some problems (like occasional...
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Aarhus: Presentations & the Table Styles in Writer
It is already a week since I am back from the great LibreOffice Conference in Aarhus. I enjoyed it a lot - talked to lots of people [eg. met Heiko for the first time in person - after having spent...
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Integrating LibreOffice OnLine into your web app
I've returned from FOSDEM 2017, where I talked about LibreOffice Online that we develop here at Collabora and how to integrate it with your own web service. If you did not have the opportunity to see...
View ArticleDialog Tunneling in LibreOffice Online
Just had a presentation about the recent exciting developments in LibreOffice / Collabora Online at FOSDEM:
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New features in the Online since the last conference
On Wednesday, I had a presentation about the latest features implemented for LibreOffice / Collabora Online in the past year at the annual LibreOffice Conference:Please enjoy, there's a lot of...
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