I honestly prefer the classic LibreOffice UI. The ribbon thing takes up a lot of screen space and i really didn’t like it when it debuted in Office 2007. Microsoft changed the color to blue so it could be more fancy. LibreOffice is the best
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W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoAgreed that there interface looks like the late late 90’s.
I’d recommend Libre more often but it’s a step backwards for most average users in UI. Microsoft has had the ribbon since, what, Office 2007?
tackleberry@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
badgermurphy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Office ribbon is more recent than the previous menu styles, but newer!=better. The ribbon organizes fewer commands into less coherent groups, and replaced the descriptive text menu option for each setting with a tiny glyph instead, creating a modern hieroglyphic system known only to them. It then made sure this less efficient workflow took up more of the already limited vertical monitor real estate. The only benefit I can see would be for the illiterate, but what are they using an office site for if they can’t read?
bufalo1973@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
LO also has the ribbon interface. But not by default.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
IIRC, the last time I used a new install of LO for the first time, it asked me which interface I preferred instead of defaulting to the old one.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
True, but it is a purely aesthetic rearrangement of the menus. It doesn’t make it any more straightforward to navigate. Plus it doesn’t really function correctly on Windows (and it takes up just as much screen space).
It was a good step when they rolled it out about a decade ago, but they still haven’t done the work to make it better organized or show appropriate hierarchy.
rzadkie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And what do you think gui is?
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As per my previous comment, it should offer reasonable use of screen space, visual hierarchy, and well-reasoned organization. Moving bad menus to a different arrangement on the screen doesn’t magically make them into good menus.
As a first step, it was a good move, although it was a decade late when it came out. They still haven’t done a major redesign another decade on.
Dojan@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
The Ribbon interface is terrible, though. The styles selector doesn’t fit the entire button, and it also doesn’t resize with your window size, remaining super tiny not capable of displaying three full options simultaneously. Image
Word at least got that right.
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My preferred layout is Sidebar, but even there the style is just a regular dropdown. LibreOffice is fantastic, but they need to put some more work into UX.
tackleberry@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Good. Those that want it can enable it. I don’t. Takes up too much screen space showing a lot of unnecessary icons
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It should be by default.