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mksaunders
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About mksaunders
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Comment #26024126
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 o…
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Comment #22686356
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 vid…
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Comment #19317395
The Document Foundation (LibreOffice) | Administrative Assistant | Remote only | Part to full-time | German and English required The Document Foundation is the home of the LibreOff…
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Comment #19075262
Development Mentor (C++) | The Document Foundation (LibreOffice) | Anywhere / home office | Part/full time The Document Foundation is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, the …
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Comment #17719761
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 …
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Comment #17717714
> 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 r…
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Comment #17716532
> 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 th…
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Comment #17716148
Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass it on to the website team :-)
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Comment #17716106
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 …
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Comment #17715665
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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Comment #17715657
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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Comment #17715544
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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Comment #17715540
> 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 yo…
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Comment #17715500
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, a…
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Comment #17715465
> 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…
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Comment #17715299
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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Comment #16273736
Those are two different Gtk themes...
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Comment #16273576
> 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 ever…
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Comment #16273537
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 Differe…
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Comment #16273521
This is why it's still an exerimental feature, and the more testing and feedback the design community gets, the better!