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[–] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I've been using LibreOffice as an MS Office replacement for a decade or so, although most of my documents are still on Google docs. The LibreOffice UI seems to have never really improved at all, and even the updating experience is annoying. I don't understand how such a lucrative productivity app has no developer support behind it?

OpenOffice got me really excited, because that UI seems modern and polished. It's really unfortunate that it's mostly we lb based and apparently really slow.

So yeah, 100% agree with you. LibreOffice with the OpenOffice UI would be 🔥

[–] noro_lim_asfaloth@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Idk, LibreOffice UI seems pretty decent for me.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's this the new UI? It's been a while since I use LibreOffice and the UI was worse than office 2003.

[–] noro_lim_asfaloth@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's not a default but I just changed it to tabbed view in the settings, picked Sifr icons in the settings, and installed adw-gtk3 theme on GNOME which makes gtk3 apps blend more with the default libadwaita GNOME theme.

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 8 points 1 year ago

It's actually not bad! Thanks!

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[–] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Neat, the customization does help make it look a lot better than the defaults. I wonder why they didn't just make this the new UI.

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