LibreOffice user interface improvements: Annual Report 2022
Design (UI and UX) has been one of the major focus points of LibreOffice in the last few years, and the Design community has produced new icon sets and a number of incremental updates to the user interface – menus, toolbars and the SideBar – along with improvements to the NotebookBar (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2022 – we’ll post the full version here soon.) Improvements in LibreOffice 7.3 Several updates were done by LibreOffice’s design team. For instance, a larger change was implemented by Samuel Mehrbrodt and Vasily Melenchuk regarding the border style. The previously random line thickness options became organized with clearly defined names and reasonable steps. Improvements in LibreOffice 7.4 A large number of improvements were implemented in LibreOffice Calc. First of all, “sparklines” mini-charts were introduced by Tomaž Vajngerl, which allow users to place a diagram-like image in cells that visually shows numerical content. In addition, hidden columns/rows can now have an indicator: if enabled, a dotted line will be drawn next to the hidden content. The sort options and sort items were made easier to access. While previously it was necessary to go to the sort options to change the
