The Document Foundation is back with a new target: the European Commission. It is calling the body out for using Microsoft Excel while ignoring the OpenDocument Format (ODF).
And if you’re one of those people who think that Office is superior to LibreOffice because of its ribbon interface, the TDF thinks you’re wrong and that you only tolerate that layout due to a psychological normalization effect forced by Microsoft.
The UX engineer seems to be in charge of PR too. Not that it’s completely wrong, just a fucking hilarious thing to be saying.
LibreOffice is missing the forest for the trees with this: yes, the ribbon isn’t the greatest paradigm, but the open-source suite looks like it hasn’t had any visual update at all since 2003.
looks like it hasn’t had any visual update at all since 2003
You’ve pointed out another great feature – no change-for-change’s-sake bullshit.
Document editing is a solved UX : except for occasional minor changes, there’s no need to fuck with the UI. Compare Tesla fucking with cabin controls in the cars and how the planet is going back to having the fucking knobs in the cars instead of in the design meetings.
Well, jokes aside, MS had keyboard shortcuts when they launched, and supported legacy menus too. LibreOffice, by contrast, is experimenting with several different menubar replacements, but they’re all half-baked and look like they were developed in Office 2003 times.
Rather than a facsimile, I’d just call the LibreOffice ribbon a distant cousin because they’re both office applications. The ribbon does slightly ease the friction of getting people to try LibreOffice, but like with the Windows UI and KDE Plasma, the similarities are surface-level and there are tons of differences. It’d be cool if public education taught people the UI of the commons first, not of the Microsoft defaults.
The UX engineer seems to be in charge of PR too. Not that it’s completely wrong, just a fucking hilarious thing to be saying.
LibreOffice is missing the forest for the trees with this: yes, the ribbon isn’t the greatest paradigm, but the open-source suite looks like it hasn’t had any visual update at all since 2003.
You’ve pointed out another great feature – no change-for-change’s-sake bullshit.
Document editing is a solved UX : except for occasional minor changes, there’s no need to fuck with the UI. Compare Tesla fucking with cabin controls in the cars and how the planet is going back to having the fucking knobs in the cars instead of in the design meetings.
I’m pretty sure a facsimile of the ribbon interface is available in LibreOffice.
There is… It’s just really not very good. Last time I checked, it didn’t have keyboard shortcuts.
So it’s a faithful homage to the ribbon mess, then. Yay!
Well, jokes aside, MS had keyboard shortcuts when they launched, and supported legacy menus too. LibreOffice, by contrast, is experimenting with several different menubar replacements, but they’re all half-baked and look like they were developed in Office 2003 times.
Rather than a facsimile, I’d just call the LibreOffice ribbon a distant cousin because they’re both office applications. The ribbon does slightly ease the friction of getting people to try LibreOffice, but like with the Windows UI and KDE Plasma, the similarities are surface-level and there are tons of differences. It’d be cool if public education taught people the UI of the commons first, not of the Microsoft defaults.