LibreOffice 4.1 was released today, with the open source office suite borrowing a new sidebar from its rival, OpenOffice. As we wrote yesterday , the sidebar was debuted in OpenOffice 4.0 after being contributed by IBM developers. In LibreOffice, it’s only an experimental feature thus far, and it can be enabled in the settings. Enabling the sidebar. “LibreOffice 4.1 is … importing some AOO [Apache OpenOffice] features, including the Symphony sidebar, which is considered experimental, ” the Document Foundation said in the LibreOffice 4.1 announcement . “LibreOffice developers are working at the integration with the widget layout technique (which will make it dynamically resizeable and consistent with the behaviour of LibreOffice dialog windows).” Read 3 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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LibreOffice 4.1 is released, borrows new sidebar from OpenOffice
