Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffice work well everywhere

Re:Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffi... by aetherspawn on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:09PM (#16182872)

You mix UI and UX polish, and the UX on OpenOffice is honestly not very good ... I only had to use it the other day and struggled with finding half a dozen things that are just obvious with Word.

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Re:Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffi... by jmiserez on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:17AM (#16184297)

* obvious to Word users

For complete novices, yes the UI is not very intuitive. But Word isn’t much better either.

I recently had to start using Word again at work and even though the ribbons seem intuitive and user-friendly, actually finding the feature I needed has not always been easy. I’ve had to Google quite a bit (the help is excellent though).

At least in LibreOffice everything is always in the menus and does not suddenly disappear if your window is not wide enough.

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Re:Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffi... by oblio on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:01AM (#16184964)

Office now has a command search box.

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Re:Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffi... by dingdingdang on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:23AM (#16184834)

I can recommend this read: https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/ux-design/the-difference-b...

UX doesn't enter into my criticism here.

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