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Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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excited to see what this means for the project, the poor UI/UX of libreoffice is easily its most glaring flaw imo

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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (18 children)

The insane amount of clutter. Compare LibreOffice to OnlyOffice

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I never tried looking into UI options, I use just OnlyOffice nowadays but LibreOffice should consider turning that on by default if it's an option.

    OnlyOffice also has a 10/10 screen when you open it, instantly asking whether you want to open a text document, PDF, make a slideshow etc. It's just very polished and they actually put effort into the UI.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    I don't think LibreOffice is 'bad' either, the functionality is great and the foss license is superior to Onlyoffice

    But when I compare it to Word and OnlyOffice (especially OnlyOffice since it's free and open source) it lacks that polish and good default settings.

    Not everything has to be to be VIM, good defaults are very important especially for novice users. And OnlyOffice has understood that very well.

    I would like for LibreOffice to succeed. Therefore I hope they take some design cues from OnlyOffice or have a good UI developer even come up with something better. Basically I hope the guy in the post is going to town and heavily modernizes the current default LibreOffice layout.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    So, you compare classic menus in one of them with a ribbon menu in the other? Don't you know how to compare? Do you also compare car speeds with one driving in reverse and the other i 5th gear?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    LibreOffice is always this cluttered. It's an outdated mess of a GUI.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    I guess you don't know how to set it up, even though it takes your hand and shows you. That's just sad... :-)

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (7 children)

    I'll give you an example since you clearly don't understand heuristics.

    Look how OnlyOffice highlights selected buttons with a light gray tint.

    LibreOffice on the other hand highlights them with very strong blue color, which draws the users attention and distracts them from the document.

    There are many more very bad design choices that LibreOffice makes, but it's just a cluttered mess in general and can really put in some work to hide away all those buttons. Yes if you know where they are and use them every single day then it's more efficient, but it takes up a lot of (mind) space to see all those buttons all the time.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Oh, so in a colorful toolbar, you are distracted by a single color? Sounds like an ADHD issue, and not a real world one. I have never seen or heard anyone but you say (Oh, I really can't work with this, I'm soooo distracted by the light blueish color that is behind the selected option)...

    Here's a pro tip. You can change the color of the selected option in you menu. You can even chose different themes that changes that. I'm sorry to hear, that this is a dealbreaker for you. I surely hope that you'll stay away from LO or other free software, because you are too fragile to use them anyways.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    Oh so after getting valid examples of objectively bad UI design you start complaining?

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    It seems like a you problem, that you can't function in an app that highlights the current chosen option with a light bluish color. 🙃

    Oh, BTW, I know a lot of people using LO, that hasn't got perfect vision. They would not be able to navigate in a toolbar where there only is a slight shift in the light of a color. It's perfectly good UI design to make it the way LO does...

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    There's clearly plenty people in this very post complaining about the UI/UX of LO as being bad. You can have anecdotal examples of people liking it but I bet most of the ones that don't also have more examples.

    Of course that it's a us problem. Problem is, us is the huge majority, and if the huge majority thinks that the UI is bad, it kinda is...

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Do you know the difference for something being bad, and something being rudimentary? Show me an UI/UX that doesn't have a lot of people complaing about something?!?

    Oh, are you the spokesperson for "the huge majority"? Please show me where that was decided... Talk for yourself, don't try to claim the right to speak for others.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It kinda doesn't? The first time you open a file (because let's be honest we don't open the program itself usually) 4 popups show up,, which you close because you want to see the damn file, and then the UI change is all gone.

    Having the user click some buttons from popups on the first launch to enable the good UI is bad UX. Simple as.

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