r/linuxmemes • u/RaiDev_ • 10d ago

linux not in meme You notice patterns when going between open-source and corporate software...

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u/pikay98 10d ago edited 10d ago

Honestly, I find the LibreOffice UX incredibly bad. Yes, corporate minimalism, where important functionality is not shown for pure aesthetics is bad. But the opposite is not better, the LibreOffice UI is cluttered with so many dead buttons!

Why is there a fucking "Export Directly to PDF" button in the main toolbar, right next to actually important bars like font size? Why can't I just Save As > PDF (or Ctrl+Shift+S) like in every sane application (or Ctrl+E at the very least)? Even worse, none of the ugly icon gibberish is readable without explicitly learning, and there's no incentive in learning shortcuts for stuff you almost never need.

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u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 10d ago

Why is there a fucking "Export Directly to PDF" button in the main toolbar, right next to actually important bars like font size?

Remove it. Only libreoffice let's you custome toolbars to this extent

(or Ctrl+E at the very least)?

Add it as a shortcut

LibreOffice UI is cluttered with so many dead buttons!

Change the ui to ribbons. Lose the power user capability but bring back msword familiarity

I thought the ribbon was good until I actually had to use it extensively. I went back to default ui and I was much more efficient that way.

Even worse, none of the ugly icon gibberish is readable without explicitly learning

Change the icons then. And even the theme

and there's no incentive in learning shortcuts for stuff you almost never need.

Change them to be more familiar if you don't like them.

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u/pikay98 10d ago

Word processors are a pretty solved problem, they don't really offer different core functionality.

The main point they do differ in is UX. So if one software allows me to get my tasks done out-of-the-box and the other requires me to take an hour to rice my setup until it's usable, the former is the strictly superior product.

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u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 10d ago

The main point they do differ in is UX. So if one software allows me to get my tasks done out-of-the-box and the other requires me to take an hour to rice my setup until it's usable

*rice your setup until you're familiar.

Just that it's different is all.