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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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[–] 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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