By default Ubuntu includes Tango and Human styles for LibreOffice, but those icons looks outdated and ugly, Galaxia looks ok but don't fit well in Ubuntu desktop, Oxygen looks good but we can have better (and by default).

So it will be nice to have quality icons for LibreOffice in Ubuntu...

Ubuntu has made great strides in ease of use, stability, and features. What keeps it from becoming a true replacement OS for Windows and OS X are the "BIG" things: sophisticated, high-quality apps such as a REAL, integrated and useful calendar.

Mac OS X and Windows both have great calendars either built into the OS or available as a free download. I can do all of the usual calendar stuff with it as well as subscribe to remote calendars (iCal, CalDAV, webcal, XML), publish and share my calendar with others, sync with my smart phone, etc. I DON'T have to be online to access them & I get reminders without the apps running.

In Ubuntu I get...nothing. Not a single app worth mentioning. The only thing that comes close is Thunderbird/Lightning and Mozilla isn't even developing it anymore. The next best thing is Evolution, which is an absolute train wreck in usability and style.

Please don't tell me to use Google. Not everyone wants to give their lives over to the Big Brother monstrosity that they have become. A lot of us like and need our privacy.

Looking for fonts in the software manager is far from easy. One have to search for font, or ttf, then he is presented a list with only font names or group of fonts names (or other font related packages). Some of those fonts are only useful for a foreign language script, but there is no clear indication about that. Some fonts come in a package with hundreds of fonts. Some fonts have a preview, other do not have any preview.

Usually, the only way to test a font is to install it. But when you have too much fonts, it is not easy to remove one font as you have to guess from which package it come.

This is different from other proposed idea because I would like to manage font from packages, without having to install them.

When you want to open a file, or save a file from an application, you have to use this mini file browser. It is tiny, not easily usable, and particularly frustrating when searching for an image, since you can't have a thumbnail of them.

It should be bigger by default, and it should be possible to choose the view of the file (list, details or thumbnails).

Now when you click on save button in Open Office it doesn't becomes "unclickable" (for lack of the better word).
This should be repaired, because I think that other distros have that, and Windows have that.
That was one of main reason that I went from word to open office.
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Why is this good idea to do:
Because when you quit, you don't to double check if you saved the last version of document. Because this is clearly show by the button save, because you can't click on it again.

I would like to see it become easier to do some more advanced printing tasks, such as printing pages into a booklet.

For this specific booklet example:
The task is to print a multi-page document into a booklet that would be stapled or bound in the center. To accomplish this, one would print two pages to each side of a sheet. Then, they would ideally be able to fold the stack of printed pages in half and bind them in the middle to create a booklet. Ultimately, one side of a printed page would have a page from the beginning of the document on the left, and a page from the end on the right.

This is extraordinarily difficult to accomplish right now, requiring the user to basically print pages one at a time and manually place the pages back into the printer tray in the right orientation.

This could be a start for Idea #18807, "GreenPrint like features in Ubuntu print dialogue." It would make it easier to save paper when printing.
It's also an extension of idea #16261, "Improved Printing Experience."

I am working a lot with office documents. On the basis OpenOffice provides the same functionality that MS office does. However, there is one thing that makes Office 2007 just a lot nicer to work with and to finalise a good and professional document quick with; intuitive colours everywhere.

Compare fore example the colours of Open office: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/images/2008/01/06/fc1.png

to the ones of office 2007:
http://img369.imageshack.us/my.php?image=office2007pw0.jpg
http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=table2007ny2.jpg

You can say I can choose any colour in OpenOffice as well, but I am not a designer who can match nice colours, it would take me a lot of effert and I just want to make an appealing document in which the numbers are just presented in a nice way.

I don't think it would take so much effort since it is just inserting a couple different colours and arrange them in a nice way. In the contrary to its little effort, it would make work for me so much more easy and productive.

To add the option of counting of characters without spaces in OpenOffice.org. To facilitate publications with counting of characters defined without spaces.

I hope this isn't a duplicate, I searched and couldn't find anything. I'm also not sure if this is the site to suggest Open Office stuff...

Does anyone remember the good old days, when you could have multiple documents open in one instance of Word? Then around the time tabs started to be used for the internet, windows stopped being used for documents...

I'm on a netbook and try to have as few programs open as possible. I use ubuntu netbook remix, which, if you're familiar, just shows icons and not the titles of programs in the taskbar in order to minimise space, so I often can't tell which instance of a program I'm opening. If all my documents were in the same instance, I wouldn't have to distinguish between repeated icons in my taskbar. Being able to use tabs in office would make me (and my puter) endlessly happy, instead of saving most of my documents as text files so I can tab them in gedit. And the great thing about tabs, is you can choose not to use them! Everyone wins!

It's impossible to rotate images directly in Writer. I have to open them in Draw first and export the Draw image into Writer. That just sucks. I want to import a picture and rotate it instantly. Please add this function to OO.o!