New LibreOffice icons by Paulo José Amaro

Paulo José Amaro published a blog post about new LibreOffice icons. He said in our Telegram design channel: "I've just posted an article on my personal blog with an extensive recap of my new icons development. This is an old practice from the past decades that I enjoy doing, and it really helps me don't get lost in the changes. So thank you guys for allowing me to quote your comments. Please, feel free to ask me to remove anything, if you change your mind". Just follow by link below.


https://paulojose-brainstorm.blogspot.com/2020/05/libreoffice-new-2020-icons.html

Create a patch for LibreOffice directly in gerrit

Possibly, you are a great C++ developer or conversely you write your first strings in C++ and you want make LibreOffice better with pair (or more!) string of code.
Note, the same way uses for Help changes.

We'll suppose you already know what strings and in which file(s) of the LibreOffice source code you age going to change.

I'll talk here about using gerrit for that change making. 

So open your browser and type in address bar - gerrit.libreoffice.org. Click on SIGN IN in top right corner of the site. You'll see something like this:

For gerrit using you must have a TDF account, so just create it by that orange button ;-) Then login in to the site.

For making your change select Browse->Repositories on top of the site:

Then in the Filter field type one word "core" and click on link "core" in row below (if you want change Help, then type "help" instead "core" and click to "help"):

In left side of the site press Commands and then press CREATE CHANGE button by center of screen:

In opened window type in to Select branch for new change field word master and select "master" from drop-down list. Type something like tdf#bug_number <description> into Description area. Please use short description here, about only 75 characters on the first line; if you need a longer description, then add one empty line, and then add as many 75-character lines as you want. Press CREATE button.

Screen updates. Press EDIT in right top corner of the site:

There is a row with commands in right side of the site:

Press OPEN. In a new window type a name for file where you want make your change:

Please use a tooltip for selecting a full path to file! Click OPEN. It opens a source code editor:

Make your changes in the source code and click SAVE in right top site corner. Please wait, it shows a message like "All changes saved" in left bottom corner, then click CLOSE in right top site corner. You'll back to main site where you'll can see the changed file with your change. 

If your changes are in more than one file then just repeat operations from OPEN command as you need.

So, you made all your changes. Now you need someone who will review your patch. 

If you have a friend from LibreOffice developers (as me;-), then you can add it to reviewers directly. Click ADD REVIEWER in left side of the site and in first row of new window type his nickname or e-mail to add him in opening window. Then press START REVIEW there.

If you know nobody from LibreOffice developers then you can ask them to review your patch on #libreoffice-dev IRC channel in Freenode.net.

In that case click START REVIEW in main window and finally click PUBLISH EDIT in top right corner of the site.

Now you should just wait. You'll get one message from jenkins test bot and if it will be +1, then someone from developers should review the patch and set +2 and then will merge it to LibreOffice source code.

Updated branding in LibreOffice's 7.0 windows installer

So, I just show you two screenshots with current view of LibreOffice's 7.0 windows installer:

Looks nice.

How to install Glade on macOS

Possible you need Glade, but you use macOS and won't change your OS or use any virtual machine. You can install Glade on your macOS using Homebrew. Three simple steps:

Open a Terminal.

Enter a first command: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

It will download and install Homebrew on your macOS. 

Note, you should be enter your admin password two or three time during that process.

After end of Homebrew installing enter a second command: brew install glade.

So now you can start Glade with command glade in the Terminal.

Branding change in LibreOffice 7.0

It's still WIP, but I can show you pair of images with a new branding in LibreOffice 7.0. And you can look at it yourself when you'll download a current daily build by link.

So a first image is new the About dialog:

And a second image is the Start Center (empty):

Looks nice for me=) Thanks to our designers for it.

Presentation templates for Impress

Possibly you search some nice presentation templates for LibreOffice Impress, because in-build templates aren't good for you?

You can find many templates here
https://dohliam.github.io/libreoffice-impress-templates/ or
https://www.showeet.com/tag/impress/
Just download an archive that you liked, unzip it and start your work by double click on OTP file ;-)

LibreOffice's extension Formatting of All Math Formulas 0.1.9 is released

We have updated our extension Formatting of All Math Formulas to 0.1.9 version.

The extension allows you to change font and font size for all (or only for selected) Math formulas in your Writer, Calc, Draw or Impress document for one time.

In this version we fixed problem with change symbols from bold and italic to normal view after extension using.

We updated extension official page https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/formatting-of-all-math-formulas.

And here is a direct link to download a new 0.1.9 version of the extension.