Agustus 03, 2020

Neo Colibre for Maximum Productivity



Having fun everyone. I wish you are all doing good in this tough time.

It was Adolfo who complaint about Colibre's failure to accomplish WCAG contrast guideline. He said the colors are too faint and everything looks washed out. Furthermore, MS Office 365 has since moved those colors to a brand new monoline style iconography. See this bug report for details

So I took the chance to update this Windows default icon theme. Luckily, the icon theme comes with SVG version, I can easily use bash script to automate a neccessary color conversion, and take the rest manually. In one month, I finally managed to finish this "Neo" Colibre. Hopefully this will benefit the largest LibreOffice user platform (approximately more than ~80%).

Here you can see side by side comparison to see the improvement (click to enlarge then right click > "View Image" for Firefox, right click > "Open image in a new tab" for Chrome for maximum appearance)

Start Center


Standard User Interface

Writer

Calc

Impress

Math

Draw



Base

Tabbed User Interface

Writer


Calc



Impress


Draw

Sidebar

Writer


Calc


Impress


Draw


Base


Objects

Image



Table


Chart



Sheet


3D Settings


By God will, this will be available in 7.0 release. You can try it earlier from my github repo as an extension (make sure your LibO version equal or greater than 6.0):

12 komentar:

  1. Hi,

    Thanks for your work, it looks great and much better than the original Colibre.
    How this theme will be available? When?

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. It will eventually available in 7.0 release by God will.

      You can try it earlier from my github repo as an extension (make sure your LibO version equal or greater than 6.0):

      https://github.com/rizmut/libreoffice-style-colibre/raw/master/build/Colibre-IconSet.oxt

      Hapus
  2. Excellent work! Thank you for your great effort!

    BalasHapus
  3. Me encantan los iconos gracias por el esfuerzo valió la pena

    BalasHapus
  4. How can I set the paragraph style drop down UI to the one showed in the image?

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Do you mean the one with larger box? Then if yes, you should try daily master build (currently in 7.1 version)

      Hapus
  5. Good work indeed. I also used to though that original Colibre icons, though MSOffice-like, they were faint.

    I have one question regarding the screenshots, particularly, the Writer in tabbed interface mode. When I select the tabbed iterface, I dont see a large paragraph style icon, but only a dropdown menu, as before, at least on Linux. Is this something experimental or Windows-specific?

    BalasHapus
    Balasan
    1. Thank you Francisco. Yes, personally Colibre has never been my cup of tea because of that.

      The large paragraph icon does not available in current "fresh" (7.0) version. You have to install development version which can be obtained from daily master build: https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/. Hope it will help.

      Hapus