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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
5·3 days 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
22·3 days 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
5·3 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
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
33·3 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.mlOPto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•New York Mayor Eric Adams Signs Executive Orders Prohibiting Mayoral Appointees and Agency Staff From Boycotting and Disinvesting From Israel.
41·3 days agoYes I believe he can. Eric Adams is pulling a

geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice Developer focusing on UI/UX - The Document Foundation Blog
74·3 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
3·3 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
103·3 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
34·3 days agoRecommend OnlyOffice instead. It’s like LibreOffice but it doesn’t look like complete garbage and actually modern.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Rubio: Venezuela is a Base for Iran and Hezbollah in South AmericaEnglish
23·4 days agoFor those looking for another source here’s the video of Rubio saying it https://xcancel.com/Megatron_ron/status/1996488200500728261
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•A compulsory mandated app installed on every Indian citizen's new phone
3·5 days agoThey turned down the heat slightly because the frogs noticed the boiling.
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
1·5 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.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•The context behind Zohran’s betrayal: decades of Chomskyite efforts to cultivate a non-communist left
3·6 days agoWow impressive so Zohran did a “both sides”. That sure doesn’t sound Liberal at all.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•If you are an American join the PSL
7·6 days agoI guess this is the moot of the arguement?

PSL doesn’t have nearly the size required to start an armed resistance. Though they are doing electoralism. But even for an armed resistance, step one is getting enough members before starting the armed resistance.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I Tried Switching to Linux for 157 Days - BasicallyHomeless
65·7 days agoI’ve read on Lemmy that Bazzite also has some issues. I believe GN chose it as their testing distro too and had some issue. Especially for non-gaming related tasks. Aurora is also a recommendation which is supposedly a general purpose bazzite but I’m not sure if that then has gaming issues.
Someone should really do a distro test where they test the out-of-the-box functionality of all distros on different tasks
geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I Tried Switching to Linux for 157 Days - BasicallyHomeless
3·7 days agoYes but audio drivers still seem to be a common issue for everyone. That should really just be working out of the box by now it’s insane.
His biggest issue was Premiere Pro not working on Linux, and Davinci Resolve not supporting the AAC Audio codec which VLC recorded in which he then wasted a ton of time on to get it to work and eventually tried to vibe-code his own video editor which didn’t really work out so then he purchased Davinci Resolve premium to get AAC support.
Nobody cares about a Nobel Prize. He buys up vaccines using his “charity” and then puts them all behind a patent wall. And bill uses his influence to do capitalist psyops, like doing climate change denial through channels like Kurzgesagt.




















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.