They include better support for dark mode, more colorful application and MIME-type icons, and a lot more. The free-to-use productivity software suite has a number of new features and improvements. Select the dark theme you want, then click on OK and you’ll get a new icon set in LibreOffice that works much better for dark themes: These icons are much more visible to my aging eyes.Įt voila! I can now see the icons in the LibreOffice toolbars.The team at the Document Foundation has just launched LibreOffice 7.5. Two are specifically for dark themes, Breeze (SVG + dark) and Breeze (dark). If you click on the drop down arrow, you’ll see six or so options. Right at the top of this window you can see “Icon style.” That’s the setting you want to change. You want the third option down under “LibreOffice”, “View”: If you’ve activated Tabbed mode, open the Tools tab and click Options in the far-right side of the ribbon. Let’s change the icons to better match Microsoft Office’s icon set. Even with the tabbed interface, the theming doesn’t look quite right in our edition of LibreOffice. It’s just a matter of knowing where to look. Switch to Microsoft Office-Like Icons on LibreOffice. There are several icon sets for dark themes that come pre-packaged with the standard version of LibreOffice that ships with Kubuntu and is in the repositories. All you need to do is switch the icon set in LibreOffice. The solution is quite simple, though finding it is always hard for me to remember (thus this tutorial). Perhaps it’s just my aging eyes, but those icons are very difficult for me to see. Here is how the default Breeze icons look in LibreOffice when I switch the theme: The default icon set, Breeze, in LibreOffice when the Kubuntu Global Theme is switched to Breeze Dark.
The problem comes when I switch the theme to Breeze Dark. With the default Breeze theme, the icons are very visible and work great: These are the default icons in LibreOffice 6.4.4.2 in Kubuntu 20.04 with the default Breeze theme.
The problem is with the icon set in LibreOffice. You can see the differences in the screenshots below: This is the Breeze theme that is the default in Kubuntu 20.04 This is the Breeze Dark theme that I typically use in Kubuntu. LibreOffice, the default office suite in most Linux, announced the new 7.5 feature release today The new release has greatly improved the dark mode support.
One of the first things I do when I install Kubuntu is switch my desktop environment from the default theme (System Settings -> Global Theme), Breeze, which is a lighter theme, to Breeze Dark. For the most part, this isn’t a problem, but it does cause an issue with some applications, including LibreOffice (6.4.4.2). I prefer darker themes for my desktop environment (Kubuntu 20.04) and browser (Brave).
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