2023-09-22, 15:00–15:30 (Europe/Bucharest), Room 1
LibreOffice 7.6 has a new feature called "Multi-color gradients" (MCGR) which I now had the chance to implement. The talk is about the basic changes in the core which make that work and what you can do using it.
It is in principle the implementation of the Tender 'Multi-color gradient' (see https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2021#Multi-color_gradient) which I filed long time ago, knowing that this would be urgently necessary for multiple reasons - from being up-to-date to compatibility. The core features are complete, while a specialized UI still needs to be added (all current Gradient manipulations work). I will present the necessary core changes and their implementation. I also want to talk about all the cases where this now can be used and makes LO better.
Armin Le Grand studied Computer Science at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. He started working on the Office-Project as early as 1997 by joining StarDivision, the company in Hamburg originally developing the code. He guided that code in the transitions to Free Open Source Software (AOO, LO) working for Companies SUN Microsystems, Oracle and IBM. He is now working on the LibreOffice Project as a freelancer. His main Interest Areas there are the Graphics Stack and related Areas.