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| ▲ | abhiyerra 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I think LibreOffice needs a general refresh of marketing and product for simplicity. The LibreOffice website, you have to dig in to see what features are provided. The product itself has a lot of bells and whistles but as you mentioned it is hard to discover. A feature that isn’t noted but is quite cool is LibreOffice Base’s ability to connect to remote databases and create forms on top of those. Basically a better Access. |
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| ▲ | franga2000 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Genuinely, have you looked at modern screenshots? When in ribbon mode, it's basically the same as MS Office. LO Writer: https://i.redd.it/0ps5cvvffdf21.png
MS Word: https://erinwrightwriting.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Wor... Got any other "ugly" spots? All the "old" menus (like editing a paragraph style or list style) look kind of bad on both, but at least MS Word's print preview got a facelift (used to be even worse than LO, now it's quite a bit better). |
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| ▲ | hyperman1 a day ago | parent [-] | | I run LO on KDE on Ubuntu 24.04 at work. The menus were hiding lots of stuff with a weird gray on slightly less gray color scheme. It felt like they hate users, but then it hit me: The Gnome and KDE styling are somehow infighting. A 5 minute journey in the LO settings menu turned it from a hunt-the-label game into not-productivity-damaging good enough UI. I have copied over the config for a few Ubuntu versions so I assumed some setting got wonky, but reading this thread, I wonder who else has to suffer this. |
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| ▲ | tryptophan 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Its also slow and laggy compared to office products somehow. Has that classic open source jank. |
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| ▲ | poisonwomb 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You know, I did kind of think that until I sat down to use it and realised compared to MS office it’s like a glass of ice water in hell. I do actually think on Mac if you just use the minimal toolbar buttons and the menu bar buttons it looks pretty presentable. Not good but not the worst. And on Linux/GTK it actually looks super nice |
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| ▲ | bundie 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > so ugly I think this is a common issue with open source software, except when it comes to GNOME/GTK/Libadwaita apps. For some reason, GNOME apps almost always manage to look good. |
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| ▲ | snackbroken 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It's easy to make something look nice when you drop "being useful" as a requirement. | |
| ▲ | franga2000 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Libadawaita apps look good as graphic design, but at the cost of usability. KDE apps (real Qt, not Kirigami) always have some standout icons, mismatched margins or strange styling decisions, but all the features are more or less where you'd expect them to be and, more importantly, they actually have all those features because they weren't cut for the sake of design. | |
| ▲ | fluidcruft 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Frankly Gnome apps are very strange. Things are hidden in weird menus in odd places with barely noticable icons. Like... it's pretty and things are there but it makes no sense to me. It's like the mental model going on whiffles over my head. It's nice but whoever this is designed for does not even remotely think like I do. If that makes sense. I don't know if I'm just overwhelmed with UIs being different everywhere (Android vs iOS vs Windows vs MacOS vs every website doing it's things to be unique) but it feels like an extra and unnecessary puzzle that somehow hasn't gotten the memo about what's "common" or "typical" or emergent in the pile of visual chaos. Don't get me wrong, some parts they do the best (mostly shell related) and I miss them instantly on Windows or MacOS but some things (mostly in individual apps like the text editor and PDF viewer) really leave me scratching my head. |
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| ▲ | greazy 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Libreoffice comes with a few different themes and icon sets. Have you tried them out? |
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| ▲ | kwanbix 2 days ago | parent [-] | | It doesn't matter. Most people go with the defaults. If your default is ugly, your app is uggly. | | |
| ▲ | ricardonunez 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Also the themes and the themes are not that great and not sharp looking, specially in dark mode. I’m using it out of principle but the design needs an overhaul. I was considering doing the design using some open source icon set but time is limited. | |
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| ▲ | tiahura 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Its reminiscent of Wordperfect 6 for Windows. |
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