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Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog (blog.documentfoundation.org)

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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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[-] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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...

[-] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

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...

[-] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 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.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

Whoa my bad I didnt' know I could just change every setting and spend hours to make it look like something else does out of the box.

[-] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Well, it takes me about 3 minutes to make it look exactly like I want it to... So yeah, your bad...

[-] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

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.