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LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

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Re: LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

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Post by Shared404 »

> so nobody thinks in terms of buying support for any office suite[.]

In my experience working in a repair shop, people only think in these terms when buying an office suite, regardless of if they'll actually use the official support. This only applies to individuals though, not corps.

Re: LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

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Post by duncanawoods »

Huh. I just tried Calc (6.0.7.3, Ubuntu 18.04) again this morning for the first time in a while and it crashed in seconds after right-clicking a few column headers. It's repeatable.

When trying to navigate the very confusing document recovery dialogs to restart it, it then launched as Writer not Calc.

I really wish it was an option but JFC. My experience with has always been so bad it doesn't even feel worth raising a bug report.

Re: LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

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Post by stormdennis »

duncanawoods wrote: post #3

Huh. I just tried Calc (6.0.7.3, Ubuntu 18.04) again this morning for the first time in a while and it crashed in seconds after right-clicking a few column headers. It's repeatable. When trying to navigate the very confusing document recovery dialogs to restart it, it then launched as Writer not Calc. I really wish it was an option but JFC. My experience with has always been so bad it doesn't even feel worth raising…

I find that calc is very good for migrating data from files that other programs, cannnot open. Import from some random file type, export as csv for example.

Re: LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

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Post by maxmouchet »

As much as I love free software, LibreOffice interface feels old and ugly (to me, at least). It would be nice if there was more focus on the UX/UI design in open source projects. Of course, most programmers are not UX/UI designers, and designers don't tend to work for free on open source projects.

Re: LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

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Post by tluyben2 »

duncanawoods wrote: post #3

Huh. I just tried Calc (6.0.7.3, Ubuntu 18.04) again this morning for the first time in a while and it crashed in seconds after right-clicking a few column headers. It's repeatable. When trying to navigate the very confusing document recovery dialogs to restart it, it then launched as Writer not Calc. I really wish it was an option but JFC. My experience with has always been so bad it doesn't even feel worth raising…

Could you make a video of that? I am clicking myself silly (ubuntu 18.04 / 6.0.7.3) and cannot repeat that behavior. I use calc a lot and it rarely crashes (less than excel/windows which, on my ms surface tablet, actually quite regularly crashes or hangs).

Re: LibreOffice: The Next Five Years

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Post by Jonnax »

I haven't used Libreoffice in years.

Did they ever update the UI styling?

I remember it had a very "java" look to it.

You know that feeling when you open an app, you know it's going to be a bit janky.

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