General Activities Rafael Lima made smaller and improvements to menus, dark mode support, shortcuts and accelerators Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made some tweaks to wordings in UI and Help Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved help for regular expressions, Calc statistics features, Formatting Aids options, Calc Input options, Calc’s INDEX() function and added a help page documenting new command line PDF export options. He also made many refactorings and cleanups in Help. Seth Chaiklin made many text improvements both in the UI and in Help related to numbering, indexes and captions Stéphane Guillou (TDF) improved help for Calc’s Validity feature and Customize dialog Juan C. Sanz made it so data in Firebird embedded databases are saved automatically Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos and Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed an issue with Writer fields mishandling datetime when using a locale with comma as decimal separator as well as a datetime value formatting issue, fixed inconsistencies and inaccuracies in Calc rounding functions, fixed a bug in the display of Add-in function names in a localised context, made Calc’s RANK() function more
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QA/Dev Report: February 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.5.0 was announced on February 2 Roman Kuznetsov gave a talk about QA in russian Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made it so empty BASIC libraries are populated by an empty module for better user experience, made zooming smoother in Impress and Draw, implemented shortcut-assignable zoom commands as well as commands for toggling Watch/Stack windows for Basic IDE, made colour schemes translatable and fixed some broken links in Help Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the layout of some dialogs and updated some Help texts after UI changes Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved Help pages for Template Manager, command line conversion filter info and Draw layers. He also added links to Calc function wiki articles Seth Chaiklin made many text improvements both in the UI and in Help related to heading numbering and indexes Alain Romedenne corrected malformed keyword names in BASIC function signatures and added a Help page for FormatPercent Basic/VBA function Sophia Schröder made many smaller fixes and markup rework in Help files Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos, Dennis Francis and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements. Szymon also made HTML
QA/Dev Report: January 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.4.5 was announced on January 26 Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made the BASIC code editor warn in case of read-only modules and dialogs and made it possible to toggle the display of section boundaries independent from text boundaries in Writer. He also added a help page for Calc’s STYLE function and improved and expanded ScriptForge help Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made many smaller string improvements both in help and in the UI Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a guide to help for Content Controls, updated menu item paths and added help pages for Translate command, page numbering wizard and reworked help pages about indexes Stéphane Guillou (TDF) improved the help for paragraph styles Miklós Vajna (Collabora) made XHTML export more robust, created plumbing for citation handling in Writer and expanded the XML layout dumping developer functionality. He also fixed crashes and several Writer regressions Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed issues with oversized bounding boxes when editing embedded objects in PPTX or XLSX files and made it so linked OLE objects are retained upon PPTX export Szymon Kłos, Pranam Lashkari, Mert Tumer, Ashod Nakashian, Andras Timar and Henry Castro (Collabora) worked
QA/Dev Report: December 2022
General Activities Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode features and improved scrolling and zooming in the Basic code editor. He also improved help for ScriptForge Adolfo Jayme Barrientos updated the icons and colours in Help to match the new application icons Alain Romedenne improved help pages on built-in file dialogs Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved several extended tooltips and improved the help on cell references and cell addressing in Calc Bogdan Buzea improved the quality of the applause audio clip found in the gallery and made many string fixes and improvements in help and in the UI code Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) dropped the unnecessary name attribute from link elements in help with support from Christian Lohmaier Miklós Vajna (Collabora) added new commands .uno:GotoMark for jumping to a bookmark and .uno:UpdateBookmarks to update the content of a bookmark (helps especially with Zotero citations) and enhanced .uno:InsertBookmark and .uno:InsertField to allow specifying bookmark/refmark text. He also improved the Writer layout XML dump developer feature, improved the DOCX compatibility of paragraph marker formatting, fixed a layout issue related to bookmarks and fixed some Writer crashes. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos, Andras Timar and Michael Meeks (Collabora) worked on LOKit improvements.