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  • 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.








  • 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.