Documentation team meeting minutes Friday December 12th, 2025 --** 15:00 UTC **--

Presents: Dione, Edward, Olivier

Completed Actions Items:

Calc Guide : Chap 8 Printing…(Olivier)
Master document (Olivier)

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167650
Wrong shortcut keys for double underline

Pending Action Items:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168924
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157395

AI: New GSOC Improvements

AI: + use redirect for some languages to books.lo (olivier)
AI: + move legacy docs to safe place (nextcloud? wiki?) (olivier)

AI Review Chapt 18: (Ed Olson)
+ F2 + Ctrl+Shift+enter (Olivier)

AI Review Chapt 19: (Ed Olson)

AI: New chapter (Appendix) on keyboard shortcuts (Dione)
AI: Submit bug for Keyboard shortcut dialog

AI: Getting started with Base chapter needs rewrite?

Topics

Help pages (recurring)

  • Updates and fixes
  • New pages for new features

Documentation website pages

Guide Bugs reported in Bugzilla

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137487

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167965
Levels of sorting in Calc

Getting Started Guide (recurring)

Calc Guide (recurring)

Writer guide (recurring)

AI: New chapter (Appendix) on keyboard shortcuts (Dione)
AI: Submit bug for Keyboard shortcut dialog
+ Have a search field or checkboxes row for
quick find of available/existing shortcuts

Draw Guide (recurring)

Misc (recurring)

Help Chatbot
+ stalled
+ See Franklin Weng presentation in Budapest on LLM for LibreOffice

File management in NextCloud.
+ pending

Provide sample spreadsheets?
+ pending
Videos
+ Stalled - under evaluation

Sanity check extension
+ Latest release 25.10

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Hello Olivier

After receiving an email from ilmari about themes in Impress has raised a question.

Do I include information on how to use and create themes in the Impress, Draw and Math user guides?

Regards
PeeWee

Hello Olivier

Impress Guide 252 and IG252 Chapter 2.

I have replaced the PDF and Published files.

Thanks to iImari, I had missed out a complete section on Impress Themes and this section now in the user guide and chapter 2.

Regards
PeeWee
Technical Writer

Hello Peter

The Theme thing was for release 24.2, and according to the patch

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/156123

it was removed in August 26 2023, which correspond to LibreOffice 24.8 or later and is not available anymore.

You had added the change in the 25.2 book.

Olivier
PS: For what it worth, release 24.2 is outdated and may not worth the effort to fix the book.

Hello Olivier

Themes are available for Impress in LO 26.2.
I have added a new section at the end of IG26202-SlideMastersStylesTemplates with instructions on how to create new themes.

Regards
PeeWee

Hello Olivier

How do you delete a theme from LibreOffice?

You can create a theme, but there is no method given on deleting themes if a theme is no longer required.

Regards
PeeWee

Hello Olivier and ilmari

After carrying out a few tests on LibreOffice Themes the following is my conclusion.

Why use themes when LibreOffice templates and styles are very easy to use? A LibreOffice user will find that templates are styles are easier to use.
After creating a new theme, you CANNOT delete the new theme from LibreOffice. Only way to delete a custom is totally remove and reinstall LibreOffice.
A new theme cannot be renamed. A new theme will only use LibreOffice-1 or 2 and so on.
The benefit from creating accurate colours in LibreOffice is non-existent. Display of.colours in a display depend on computer OS, computer age, computer graphics chip and the type of computer display being used.
Themes option should be totally removed from LibreOffice.

Regards
PeeWee (Technical Writer)

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Hi @PeeWee

I also agree with the removal of the Theme feature for the same reason: Styles and templates are much more flexible and powerful than Themes.

Removals are a topic for the ESC, I’ll bring it to the weekly meeting.

Olivier