mksaunders

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by mksaunders 6y ago
The Document Foundation (LibreOffice) | Development Mentor | Remote | Part/Full-time The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the world’s leading open source office suite, LibreOffice. We are truly passionate about
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Open Letter from LibreOffice to Apache OpenOffice(blog.documentfoundation.org)
26 points by mksaunders 6y ago|11 comments
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by mksaunders 6y ago
Commodore 64, sure, but I wouldn't recommend the Atari 2600 for beginners! I wrote a small game for the 2600 years ago, and it's a tricky little machine. It doesn't even have a video frame buffer, so you have to do things on
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by mksaunders 8y ago
The Document Foundation (LibreOffice) | Administrative Assistant | Remote only | Part to full-time | German and English required The Document Foundation is the home of the LibreOffice community and one of the most popular open source projec
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LibreOffice 6.2 Released with NotebookBar UI(blog.documentfoundation.org)
7 points by mksaunders 8y ago|1 comments
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by mksaunders 8y ago
Development Mentor (C++) | The Document Foundation (LibreOffice) | Anywhere / home office | Part/full time The Document Foundation is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, the most popular open source office suite. We are look
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by mksaunders 8y ago
Thanks for your understanding and fair discussion :-) On this point: > This collecting user data to influence their behavior... I think that's a really negative and cynical way to look at what we and other FOSS projects are doing. H
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by mksaunders 8y ago
> tracking is tracking But as another commenter here mentioned, simplifications like that do far more damage than good. In the broader world, "tracking" on the internet generally refers to companies following you all over the w
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by mksaunders 8y ago
> You're are assuming that not using tracking will automatically result in a bad website. But that's not what I said at all. Please don't just thrown in things like that. I said that analytics tools can be really useful in
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by mksaunders 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass it on to the website team :-)
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by mksaunders 8y ago
Look at it this way: * If we had a bad website, people would complain that it's ineffective, and not helping drive people towards FOSS * If we then add open source analytics tools to try to improve the site, people ask why we are &quot
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by mksaunders 8y ago
Feel free to join the Design community and give us a hand - only with more input from volunteers will things get better! https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design
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by mksaunders 8y ago
I was referring to the fact that he "hated" the icons - it's not the end of the world, as you can use the old ones. But you're right, I've added the three steps to my original post!
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by mksaunders 8y ago
Then simply use the older icons :-) EDIT: Three steps: 1. Go to Tools > Options in the menu 2. Click View on the left 3. Then choose Icon style on the right
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by mksaunders 8y ago
> 1. What you've described as 'not "tracking" ' is tracking. It's not third-party tracking but you're still deliberately adding a cookie for the purpose of tracking users across your site. OK, we'r
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by mksaunders 8y ago
I use it on Linux and macOS and it's pretty fast with CSV files (although I'm not sure how large the ones you're using are!) If it's specific CSV files that are causing an issue, and you don't mind sharing them, you
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by mksaunders 8y ago
> Why does the Document Foundation need to track me? It's not "tracking" (in the sense of monitoring what you do on other sites). On the LibreOffice website, we use the open source stats tool Matomo (formerly Piwik) to get
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by mksaunders 8y ago
There's a short video showing the theme, and other features mentioned, as linked in the blog post ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoCpnwGNFU
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LibreOffice 6.1 released(blog.documentfoundation.org)
169 points by mksaunders 8y ago|83 comments
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Image handling rework in LibreOffice(blog.documentfoundation.org)
2 points by mksaunders 8y ago|0 comments
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The Month of LibreOffice, May 2018(blog.documentfoundation.org)
2 points by mksaunders 8y ago|0 comments
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by mksaunders 9y ago
Those are two different Gtk themes...
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by mksaunders 9y ago
> Instead of adding more fonts by default, they should start thinking how they can improve their UI, make it clean, discoverable and easy to use. It's possible to do both! Not everyone in a large open source project works on the sam
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by mksaunders 9y ago
Why not research it for yourself? Here's a start: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_Libr... Look at the "Major Feature Differences" and "Minor Feature Differences" sections.
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by mksaunders 9y ago
This is why it's still an exerimental feature, and the more testing and feedback the design community gets, the better!
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LibreOffice 6.0 released(blog.documentfoundation.org)
266 points by mksaunders 9y ago|156 comments
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LibreOffice 5.4.4 has been released(blog.documentfoundation.org)
23 points by mksaunders 9y ago|8 comments
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by mksaunders 9y ago
The Document Foundation | Development Mentor | Remote, part or full time The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks an individual – or individuals part (or full) time
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LibreOffice Conference 2017, Rome – video wrap-up(youtube.com)
3 points by mksaunders 9y ago|0 comments
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LibreOffice celebrates 7th anniversary – and leads in Ubuntu survey(blog.documentfoundation.org)
3 points by mksaunders 9y ago|0 comments

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