Pretty sure LibreOffice help-folks in forums are gaslighting the users saying that #LibreOffice Write style application problems are user error. I've got the same problems as several help-seekers in forums as recently as a few months ago, and the "helpful" forum replies just keep insisting that what the user is saying they did or didn't do is false.

I'm convinced LO Write has some bugs in this department, so it feels borderline aggressive for the help-folks to keep insisting that there can't possibly be bugs; it must be the user.

Edit: A less serious but still frustrating thing: LO helpers online repeatedly state the precedence rules for formatting text (paragraph style, character style, direct formatting, etc.) and simply lament that users can't handle such an advanced and user-friendly system.

Then they tell someone with a 400-page novel including thousands of paragraphs that, instead of suggesting LO adopt a system where styles might (if users choose) override direct and paragraph formatting, this person should quadruple-click each of their thousands of paragraphs, one by one, then press CTRL+M to remove all formatting, and finally apply the LO style.

If you have to work this hard to ignore a repeated feature request, there is something wrong.

#ui #ux #design #foss

Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.

No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.

This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.

So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.

I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?

#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness

Friday app icon sketches.

#gnome #app #icon #design #procreate #sketch

Good job with the design, @thunderbird . Can you maybe replace the custom repeat pattern dropdown with buttons instead so that I can save a click?

" | Daily | Weekly | Monthly | Yearly |"

#Thunderbird #Calendar #Design #UIUX

Nexus Client

Hi, around two weeks ago I started making Nexus, a Matrix client.

In these two weeks, I've made great progress, as you can see in the progress list.

However, I'd love some help implementing some features, or help with UI design, as it takes me quite a while to design a UI.

If you're interested, please reply!
Boosts appreciated! ❤️

#Flutter #FOSS #Help #OpenSource #Matrix #Design

We're so happy to annouce that we have an open source design devroom and we're now accepting calls for talks via the FOSDEM pretalx system.

Open Source Design has been part of FOSDEM for over a decade now, making sure designers who work with, or contribute to free, libre and open source software (FLOSS) a platform to share their ideas.

Call for participation details and link here:
opensourcedesign.net/2025/10/0…

#opensource #fosdem26 #opensourcedesign #design #oss #fosdem #cfp

Die #Pixum #Software zur #Gestaltung von #Foto #Drucksachen gibt es auch für den #Linux #Desktop:

pixum.de/fotobuch/software
Finde ich gut.

#Design

Pixum Fotowelt Software kostenlos herunterladen | Pixum

Gestalte dein Pixum Fotobuch mit der kostenlosen Fotowelt Software ♥ Download für Windows, Linux oder Mac ✓ Einfach und vielseitig ✓

^Pixum

The GitHub Annotations Toolkit just announced by Jan Maarten and Daniel Henderson-Ede at Inclusive Design 24 2025!
github.com/github/annotation-t…

#design #accessibility #id24

GitHub - github/annotation-toolkit: The GitHub Annotation Toolkit is a Figma asset library packed with components to help you organize your design canvas, diagram UI anatomy, and annotate accessibility details for web and mobile experiences.

The GitHub Annotation Toolkit is a Figma asset library packed with components to help you organize your design canvas, diagram UI anatomy, and annotate accessibility details for web and mobile exp...

^GitHub

Axonometric grids, contextual layer actions, polygon selection tool and more are available to test in Pinta 3.1 Beta.

omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/pinta-…

#opensource #Design #tech

Pinta 3.1 Beta Adds New Features, Effects & Options

A beta version of Pinta 3.1 is available for testing. The fee open source image editor adds axonometric grid, polygon selection, performance improvements and more.

^{Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)}

For the next GTK cycle, Matthias has been working on a format for symbolic icons that can be rendered efficiently by GTK, including animations; it is based on a subset of SVG with custom vendor attributes:

discourse.gnome.org/t/animated…

If you want to experiment with content creation apps, or towards a shared implementation, feel free to drop by on Discourse.

#design #icons #gtk #ux

Animated icons for GTK

I have been working for a while on GTK support for stateful, animated, symbolic icons. This post is meant to provide an introduction to the format, and encourage experimentation with it. The code will land very soon in GTK 4.21.

^{GNOME Discourse}

New Arcticons release!

🎉 226 new and updated icons!
💡 Added support for 640 apps using existing icons.
🔥 13460 icons in total!

This also might be the last release on GitHub; we're looking into moving to Codeberg. ⛰️

github.com/Arcticons-Team/Arct…

#Arcticons #iconpack #icons #design #OpenSource #androidapp

🎨 "Designing GNOME"
with Allan Day & Cassidy James Blaede
📅 24 July 🕒 11:05 CEST 📍 Brescia
🖌️ A year of design updates: notifications, UX patterns, Adwaita fonts & more.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #UX #Design #Adwaita #GUADEC2025

#Development #Reviews
First impressions of Deque Axe Assistant · What to expect from the AI accessibility chatbot ilo.im/163tch

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#AxeAssistant #AI #Chatbot #Accessibility #WCAG #Design #WebDesign #WebDev #Frontend #HTML

Who on this #mastodon uses #RSS? I just made 🥯 FeedBagel – feedbagel.com

An RSS feed finder #API that categorises feeds with #AI, and saves them for browsing and searching

any feedback welcome and appreciated! #webdev #design

If Commodore hadn't gone bankrupt in 1994, we might have had an AmigaPhone in our pockets. 🥲

#RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #VintageComputing #retro #commodore #amiga #1980s #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #old #nostalgia #graphics #mobile #design #artwork #digital #DigitalArt #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #image #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

In our latest office hours, we chat with Design Manager Laurel Terlesky to talk about the cross-platform design system she and her team are building. If you're curious about Open Source design and/or the look and feel of Thunderbird, check it out!

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Design

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/03/v…

VIDEO: The Thunderbird Design System

The Office Hours Team chat with Design Manager Laurel Terlesky about moving from 28 shades of blue to the new Thunderbird Design System.

^{Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)}

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UI/UX Design Studio Manager Laurel Terlesky's #fosdem talk is online! Explore Thunderbird's journey toward a cohesive, scalable, and data-informed open-source design system that unites desktop, Thunderbird for Android, and beyond.

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Design

fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…

FOSDEM 2025 - Thunderbird: Building a Cross-Platform, Scalable Open-Source Design System

^fosdem.org

This is what I think about whenever infosec wonks on here start telling people they should use matrix or xmpp+omemo or whatnot instead of signal

To be fair, I understand the arguments and to a large extent I agree with the critiques. However, I think anyone making these recommendations is vastly underestimating the capacity or appetite for most people to deal with the user experiences presented by these alternatives.

User experience is the ultimate force multiplier. For anything that requires network effects to function (ie most anything involving communication), if it doesn't *just work* then you've lost 90% of your audience.

xkcd.com/2501/

#matrix #xmpp #infosec #cybersecurity #signal #ux #design #ui #encryption #privacy #crypto

Average Familiarity

^xkcd

Interesting episode on the Service Design Show. Sloan Leo Cowan touches on the issues of power & the importance of building with communities. They take on the role of the designer & highlight approaches to facilitating involvement & ownership. #ServiceDesign #Facilitation #Design #OpenSource

youtube.com/watch?v=WIt998YvN7…

Stop designing WITH your users! There is a better way. / Sloan Leo Cowan / Ep. #217

There's a problem with the current design process that often goes unnoticed... A problem that can lead to less-than-ideal outcomes or, even worse, harm certa...

^YouTube

Hey Tuta Fans! Want to know how Tuta's new visual universe is improving our growing range of products? 🎨

Read Tuta's rebranding story told by our talented in-house designer Daniel 👉tuta.com/blog/tuta-new-creativ…

#TurnonPrivacy #Rebrand #Tuta
#MadeinGermany #Design

Reminder: new home for the Inclusive Design Principles
inclusivedesignprinciples.info… the old domain has lapsed and now advertises gambling 😑

#ux #accessibility #design

I'm just going to say it. Whoever designed the new notifications layout and design for Mastodon needs to go back to the drawing board (and UI design school). In some cases, esp if you start off with a tag, it looks and works horribly. (desktop view). Way worse than the old way just a month or two ago.

#mastodon #fediverse #design #uidesign

Sketch Friday!

#procreate #gnome #app #icon #design #sketch

Clavicula is a hidden gem of a 3D editor, featuring various techniques, ranging from SDF modeling to high-poly sculpting.

A new version has just been released, with some pretty cool new stuff:

➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=gd8suba0vT…

Clavicula is free, and available for Windows, Linux and macOS…

➡️ clavicula.link

#design #artwork #sculpture #3DModeling #digital #DigitalArt #art #arts #arte #artist #artists #GraphicDesign #3D #clavicula #SDF #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon

Sneaking in some time for icon design seems to require a lot more energy than it used to. Anyway, app icon sketches on a Friday!

#gnome #app #icon #design #sketch #procreate

Something to look forward to! 🥳

Enjoy your weekend everyone. 👯

#teaser #theme #design #comingsoon

Consistent delivery of app icon sketches on a Friday. What more could you ask for?

#sketch #grind #habbits #routine #procreate #gnome #design

Your weekly dose of fresh Friday app icon sketches just arrived!

#procreate #sketch #app #icon #design #gnome

In just a few minutes, Inclusive Design 24 will be getting underway... 24 hours of #free talks about everything related to inclusive design:
inclusivedesign24.org/2024/

#accessibility #design #code #UX #XR #gaming #disability #a11y #id24

Next @thunderbird live streaming session is happening this Friday!

youtube.com/watch?v=-tFxa5PZ_H…

#thunderbird #live #coding #design

Did you know about Inkscape's x-ray view?

#inkscape #icon #design #preview #outlines