LibreOffice launches community-open CALL FOR SUBMISSION aimed at LibreOffice 4.x series (splash screen, about window, welcome screen and swiss style)
Weeks ago, the LibreOffice developers announced and published ALPHA and BETA versions of the popular open-source office suite, moving the 3.x LibreOffice towards an upcoming 4.x series.
Along with constantly added features and improvements, it seems that the LibreOffice developers have adopted a design-wise approach, thus periodically launching new calls for help, online events designed with selecting visual elements in mind (and later to implement them in the official release).
The Document Foundation has just announced (and started) a new community-open online area, where interested users/developers/designers can submit personal creations, creations that, after voting and selecting, are implemented into LibreOffice 4.x series.
The aimed-at elements are splash screen, about window, welcome screen and swiss style (a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in the 1950s, shaped around readability, cleanliness and objectivity).
Full details are available on https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/4.0_Branding
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