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We’re pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 26.2 🥳 (blog.documentfoundation.org)

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[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What’s New in LibreOffice 26.2

Markdown import and export features. Improved performance and responsiveness across the suite, making large documents open, edit, and save more smoothly. Enhanced compatibility with documents created in proprietary and open core office software, reducing formatting issues and surprises. Refined user interface behavior for a cleaner, more consistent experience. Expanded support for open standards, reinforcing long-term access to documents. Hundreds of bug fixes and stability improvements contributed by the global LibreOffice community.

See the Release Notes for the full list of new features.

Markdown, great!

Also, I'm curious about the UI refinement.

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Also, I'm curious about the UI refinement.

In the release notes you've linked, there's a heading called User Interface. It's a fair number of small QOL improvements.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I see nothing about making the scroll bar static, with buttons, which is impossible to have on Linux--for an application designed around scrolling pages.

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

This strikes me as an odd comment. Did you have a specific reason to expect that 26.2 would include this, such as an enhancement request that you'd logged (or had been following) via their community channels?

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Um, no. But word processors are centered around scrolling, and all that's available is a mobile scroll, which auto-hides and has no up and down buttons. I cannot possibly be the only person who finds this problematic. Hard pass.

[-] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

If you're using KDE, apparently changing your system application style might help - Breeze, for example, has an option for visible scroll arrows. Link.

In any case, it's a GTK thing, not a LibreOffice thing.