Man if Libre peeps and OnlyOffice UI/UX devs joined forces, we would be living in the year 3000.
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 🔥
Idk, LibreOffice UI seems pretty decent for me.
I’m impressed by how they were able to make a worse ribbon interface than Microsoft itself.
The only problem with that logic is that OnlyOffice is a webapp, thus slow. Libre is Java but still faster.
AFAIK Libreoffice only uses Java for limited things and isn’t a requirement.
Pretty sure it’s mostly C++
Correct, Java is only needed for (letter) templates and macros.
I used it for years without any JVM installed… until I wanted to use a template. :(Macros should work without JVM. But a few extensions (like the NLP Solver and LanguageTool) require Java.
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Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Advanced and uncheck Use a Java runtime environment
Okay this is interesting, but still slow as hell to launch and it does fell like a Java app in a lot of ways. Funky UI behaviors like flickering and delays here and there…
Small update, under Windows, if one disables Java, Skia rendering and anti-aliasing it seems to go way faster and the UI behaves better:
Yeah I find it a lot snappier in Fedora than on windows.
Nothing is snappy under GNOME.
OnlyOffice vs LibreOffice?
I just prefer the looks of OnlyOffice, but I have heard people having localization problems with it. For my tiny use cases it has worked good so far.
isn’t onlyoffice as a service only. can it be installed as just a local application?
No it’s a local application like Libre. Can also be ran in the cloud.
Yes, for instance on the iPad with a keyboard I’ve issues typing Latin chars. Reported multiple times, still not fixed.
So I use both for work… Libre for most things, but for spreadsheets or powerpoints that are a bit more complex, onlyoffice works/looks better.
When I looked into it I found that onlyoffice is more of a MS office rip. Run by Russians and headquartered in Latvia.
You got any more information on this? Also, is there a point to caring if it is an intellectual property rip off and run by a particularly set of people from a particular country?
It’s the interface that’s a rip.
Everyone here keeps talking about how the UI is amazing, so maybe this is the right place to ask: is there an FOSS office suite that has a command pallet like coding editors and GSuite do, where you can tap a hotkey and type the tool name without having to dig through menus?
The PDF editor sounds like a gamechanger. Most office suites dont include one by default.
Still waiting for them to admit that a dictionary that automatically changes according to the keyboard you use is a bad idea.
If I manually select the Spanish language it is that I want to write Spanish. Not for the software to switch back to English as soon as I enter any keystroke.Still waiting on that Wayland support
Tell me something, the desktop apps, are they now standalone apps or still that bullshit of a single app that opens everything as tabs?
What’s wrong with tabs?
Not good for real multitasking. A combination of Windows and tabs is way better. Also there’s no reason to have a single application that you’ve to open to then create whatever document you need. Just split the damn thing into multiple apps like every other productive office suite.
I’m glad to inform you that…
That options exists, has been there for a while but its not enough. Read the thing you replied to, not having real multiple apps means things such as Window taskbar combination doesn’t work as it should.
Lmao the text on the thumbnail document
