https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170951
Bug ID: 170951
Summary: Let users import custom icons for macros in
LibreOffice apps — call it “Build-a-Button”
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 26.2.0.3 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
This isn't really about a bug. It's about a missing feature...a suggestion to
add something simple, and special, to endear LibreOffice products to users.
Many longtime users — especially those who built complex tools in Excel — miss
being able to give their macros a personal touch. In the old days, you could
design your own button icons: small, colorful, meaningful graphics that made
workflows feel familiar, fast, and personal.
It’s a simple idea:
Let users import their own icons, their button images (like PNG or SVG files) —
designed in any free or paid tool (Canva, Inkscape, Paint, etc.) — and assign
them to macros in any LibreOffice app, whether Calc, Writer, Chart, Impress, or
others. No need to build a design tool inside LibreOffice. Just let people
bring in what they’ve already made.
Call it “Build-a-Button” — with a few sample icons to get started (like “Sort,”
“Run Report,” “Reset”). It’s low effort for you, high reward for users.
This isn’t about coding — it’s about letting people make LibreOffice feel like
THEIR tool. I think that would help to keep users loyal. I know it really
appeals to me.
Thanks for listening.
Actual Results:
There are no results to report...this is a suggestion for an enhancement.
Expected Results:
Again, this is a suggestion for an enhancement.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
I was a lead finance analyst for Boeing Aerospace Co for many years, and
developed tools - stand-alone PC applications - for use by other analysts
across the USA in developing Op Plan data. Those tools were all based on MS
Excel, using the then-current macro language, VBA. I was able to design
tailored icons for the buttons used to run the various macros. It made the
apps easier to learn, easier to use, and friendlier, somehow. I miss that.
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