#LibreOffice 26.2.1 is here – the first minor update to our newest stable branch: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/26/tdf-releases-libreoffice-2621/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
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Will this version not look like it's ignoring basic UI preferences or will I still need to squint to navigate the glaring non-dark-mode interface with its tiny icons and tiny pixellated typeface?
@jerrej It's a bit hard to answer your question without any details (such as your operating system) and a screenshot of what you mean. There are many different icon themes to choose from...
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@jerrej It's a bit hard to answer your question without any details (such as your operating system) and a screenshot of what you mean. There are many different icon themes to choose from...
@libreoffice
Thank you for asking! I run Ubuntu (blame them?), currently with a MATE desktop. But I've seen the same with KDE Plasma, XFCE, and so on. It's always the same. I might post a screenshot when I get back home to my laptop but I am unsure if that would help. -
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Thank you for asking! I run Ubuntu (blame them?), currently with a MATE desktop. But I've seen the same with KDE Plasma, XFCE, and so on. It's always the same. I might post a screenshot when I get back home to my laptop but I am unsure if that would help.Also, it's not at all about some icon theme, it's that the icons are not appropriate for the UI (too *small*) and more importantly that the UI text and the document text typeface are too *small*.
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Also, it's not at all about some icon theme, it's that the icons are not appropriate for the UI (too *small*) and more importantly that the UI text and the document text typeface are too *small*.
@jerrej Please do post a screenshot. There are a million combinations of hardware and software out there (especially with all the different Linux distros) so maybe it's a scaling issue or something else we can fix.
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#LibreOffice 26.2.1 is here – the first minor update to our newest stable branch: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/26/tdf-releases-libreoffice-2621/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
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#LibreOffice 26.2.1 is here – the first minor update to our newest stable branch: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/26/tdf-releases-libreoffice-2621/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
@libreoffice RE markdown export, it could be nice to have some extra options to not convert some OLE objects (specifically equations) to images in the markdown file.
Use case here: Sharing documents with equations to non-techie people, then using Libreoffice->md->pandoc to generate LaTeX typeset pdfs
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@libreoffice RE markdown export, it could be nice to have some extra options to not convert some OLE objects (specifically equations) to images in the markdown file.
Use case here: Sharing documents with equations to non-techie people, then using Libreoffice->md->pandoc to generate LaTeX typeset pdfs
@lcwander Thanks for the feedback! You can submit enhancement requests here: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org – But of course, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. To get a new feature more quickly, you can consider helping our volunteers, or funding a developer. Thank you
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@jerrej Please do post a screenshot. There are a million combinations of hardware and software out there (especially with all the different Linux distros) so maybe it's a scaling issue or something else we can fix.
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@jerrej Oh, LibreOffice shouldn't look like that at all! You are missing a vital desktop integration package for your distro. Search for "libreoffice-gtk" or similar in your package manager...
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@jerrej Oh, LibreOffice shouldn't look like that at all! You are missing a vital desktop integration package for your distro. Search for "libreoffice-gtk" or similar in your package manager...
```apt install libreoffice-gtk3```
That "fixes" it, so thank you for the suggestion, but still I must ask: why then does it look so crappy *by default*?
It seems like a plausible desktop UI design from more than 25 years ago, so my guess is literally no one has touched those defaults since the late 1990s.
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```apt install libreoffice-gtk3```
That "fixes" it, so thank you for the suggestion, but still I must ask: why then does it look so crappy *by default*?
It seems like a plausible desktop UI design from more than 25 years ago, so my guess is literally no one has touched those defaults since the late 1990s.
@jerrej Well yes, Linux distros usually include the Gtk/Qt integration too, so the old-looking VCL interface should hardly ever come up. That's why there's no need to update it. But yes, there is an argument that when the desktop integration package is missing, LibreOffice should alert the user (while showing the old-looking VCL interface).
