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Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by criddell on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:28AM (#23791771)
> It's weird to me that people complain over "old and ugly" interfaces.

You might be interested in checking out the work of Donald Norman. He makes a great case that attractive things work better. Old isn't necessarily a problem, but ugly is.

https://jnd.org/emotion_design_attractive_things_work_better...

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Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years by Andrex on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:04PM (#23794406)
This seems intuitive enough to me but years on HN have let me know it's a rare opinion, at least among developers.
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