LibreOffice 6.1: news for the eye and under the hood
Just over six months after the release of LibreOffice 6, version 6.1 has been published – or, as the Document Foundation, the group behind the office package, proudly reports, the second major release of the 6 family. The upgrade will not land in the official repositories of Ubuntu 18.04. However to install it, you may use a PPA or a snap.
The upgrade has something for the eye: new icon sets (Elementary for the Gnome desktop and the specially developed Colibre for Windows) and new, flatter application icons give a modern appearance. In addition, the developers have continued to work on the notebook bar, the counterpart to Mocrosoft’s “ribbon”: With the LibreOffice Writer, it is ready, though not activated by default, but still marked as “experimental”.
Ebook authors can look forward to a refined export to EPUB format. The integration of graphics in documents, the menus in LibreOffice Draw, the online help pages and much more have also been improved. On Gnome and related desktops, the free office suite now shows the native file system dialogs of GTK3. Under the hood LibreOffice 6.1 changes the database engine: HSQLDB is now “depreciated”, but successor Firebird is still “experimental”.
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The upgrade has something for the eye: new icon sets (Elementary for the Gnome desktop and the specially developed Colibre for Windows) and new, flatter application icons give a modern appearance. In addition, the developers have continued to work on the notebook bar, the counterpart to Mocrosoft’s “ribbon”: With the LibreOffice Writer, it is ready, though not activated by default, but still marked as “experimental”.
Ebook authors can look forward to a refined export to EPUB format. The integration of graphics in documents, the menus in LibreOffice Draw, the online help pages and much more have also been improved. On Gnome and related desktops, the free office suite now shows the native file system dialogs of GTK3. Under the hood LibreOffice 6.1 changes the database engine: HSQLDB is now “depreciated”, but successor Firebird is still “experimental”.