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geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
1·1 day agoWhoa 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.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
5·1 day agoI 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.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
2·1 day agoOh so after getting valid examples of objectively bad UI design you start complaining?

geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
5·2 days agoI 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.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
News@lemmy.world•US airstrike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour before second deadly attack, video shows
4·2 days agoNot killing just survivors, a double tap is about killing the people who try to rescue the wounded. It is using the wounded as a trap to lure out anyone willing to help them and kill them too.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto
Technology@lemmy.ml•Announcing: Thaura - Your Ethical ChatGPT Alternative
7·2 days agoI asked it how many Israelis were killed by the IDF on october 7 and it actually responded so that’s a first

geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto
World News@lemmy.ml•Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands to boycott Eurovision 2026, as Israel allowed to compete
3·2 days agoSupport to boycott it is actually fairly big but the political lobby gets in the way. Israel has a massive grip on Europe. The Netherlands is a bit of a surprise in this lineup, they are pretty strongly infiltrated by Israel. Guess they didn’t appreciate what Israel did to Joost Klein.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
3·2 days agoI’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.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally illEnglish
2·2 days agoNo the American secret police just makes them suicide with a bullet to the back of the head. Rip Gary Webb.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally illEnglish
1·2 days agoNobody asked what happened to MLK and Malcolm X.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
7·2 days agoLibreOffice is always this cluttered. It’s an outdated mess of a GUI.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
3·2 days agoThey can develop multiple UI’s. One for normal users and a classic one for people who like everything without a single menu bar or drop down menu to abstract the clutter away
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
10·2 days agoThe insane amount of clutter. Compare LibreOffice to OnlyOffice

geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
3·2 days agoRecommend OnlyOffice instead. It’s like LibreOffice but it doesn’t look like complete garbage and actually modern.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto
Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•Are they even trying at this point
2·3 days agoIf Trump said Venezuela was flooding the US with weed, Saagar would have supported the invasion
Seeing how you take great pride in mentioning the distro you use (by the way) I fully recommend using Gentoo so you can one-up those Arch peasants. That is about all the practical use you’re going to get out of it though.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Bazzite just delivered over a petabyte of ISOs in a single month
1·4 days agoWhy is Mint wasting their spot as the recommendation for Windows users? Is it simply no longer developed or are the devs set in their ways of the UI having to look like Windows7?
Also it’s getting confusing with Zorin and Bazzite and even Aurora which is a Bazzite desktop spinoff as a recommendation.
Taking care of their own at the expense of others?
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