LibreOffice is missing the forest for the trees with this: yes, the ribbon isn’t the greatest paradigm, but the open-source suite looks like it hasn’t had any visual update at all since 2003.
Well, jokes aside, MS had keyboard shortcuts when they launched, and supported legacy menus too. LibreOffice, by contrast, is experimenting with several different menubar replacements, but they’re all half-baked and look like they were developed in Office 2003 times.
I just took another quick glance at LibreOffice, and the problem is the whole thing is half-baked to the point where the old UI actually is a problem. The dark mode color contrast is almost white on black, and with a white page it makes the menu items hard to read. Fonts are jagged. And the ribbon - which LibreOffice chose to implement at least a year ago now - shows underlined letters on the menu, but they are not accessible using Alt keyboard shortcuts.
looks like it hasn’t had any visual update at all since 2003
You’ve pointed out another great feature – no change-for-change’s-sake bullshit.
Document editing is a solved UX : except for occasional minor changes, there’s no need to fuck with the UI. Compare Tesla fucking with cabin controls in the cars and how the planet is going back to having the fucking knobs in the cars instead of in the design meetings.
LibreOffice is missing the forest for the trees with this: yes, the ribbon isn’t the greatest paradigm, but the open-source suite looks like it hasn’t had any visual update at all since 2003.
I’m pretty sure a facsimile of the ribbon interface is available in LibreOffice.
There is… It’s just really not very good. Last time I checked, it didn’t have keyboard shortcuts.
So it’s a faithful homage to the ribbon mess, then. Yay!
Well, jokes aside, MS had keyboard shortcuts when they launched, and supported legacy menus too. LibreOffice, by contrast, is experimenting with several different menubar replacements, but they’re all half-baked and look like they were developed in Office 2003 times.
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I just took another quick glance at LibreOffice, and the problem is the whole thing is half-baked to the point where the old UI actually is a problem. The dark mode color contrast is almost white on black, and with a white page it makes the menu items hard to read. Fonts are jagged. And the ribbon - which LibreOffice chose to implement at least a year ago now - shows underlined letters on the menu, but they are not accessible using Alt keyboard shortcuts.
You’ve pointed out another great feature – no change-for-change’s-sake bullshit.
Document editing is a solved UX : except for occasional minor changes, there’s no need to fuck with the UI. Compare Tesla fucking with cabin controls in the cars and how the planet is going back to having the fucking knobs in the cars instead of in the design meetings.