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Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#11

Post by sdze »

soufron wrote: post #7
sharikous wrote: post #4

I find LO to be very buggy and unintuitive in its UI. Equations are a pain, it forgets styling options, etc.. But as a user who uses it completely independently of MS Office, just for my documents, the peace of mind I have knowing I am using a powerful multiplatform open source software which won't betray me is priceless. I know my documents are safe and I can move between OSes at my will. This kind of freedom is ess…

Well... MS Office is equally buggy...

Wrong. LO 7.3 crashed with a new Writer Document after I tried to change the toolbar. Imagine such a bad test coverage.

icons still blurry on macOS retina display. Chronic bug unsolved since aeons

Also due to one-process for all architecture, if one document crashes, it crashes all other documents with it.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#12

Post by rbut »

sharikous wrote: post #4

I find LO to be very buggy and unintuitive in its UI. Equations are a pain, it forgets styling options, etc.. But as a user who uses it completely independently of MS Office, just for my documents, the peace of mind I have knowing I am using a powerful multiplatform open source software which won't betray me is priceless. I know my documents are safe and I can move between OSes at my will. This kind of freedom is ess…

There are multiple UI options to choose from. Have you tried them all?

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#13

Post by smallerfish »

agumonkey wrote: post #6
sharikous wrote: post #4

I find LO to be very buggy and unintuitive in its UI. Equations are a pain, it forgets styling options, etc.. But as a user who uses it completely independently of MS Office, just for my documents, the peace of mind I have knowing I am using a powerful multiplatform open source software which won't betray me is priceless. I know my documents are safe and I can move between OSes at my will. This kind of freedom is ess…

I wanted to work on fixing Writer's custom fields UI, it's horrendous and it could be very useful.

They have a design team who are collaborative. You could get in touch with Heiko and help out. https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#14

Post by derbOac »

bitigchi wrote: post #2

Nice. Seems like it includes lots of improvements for OOXML compatibility.

My test is whether I can take a document with complex equation formatting and export it into docx without a hitch.

I haven't tried it yet with the new version but in the past it's always failed miserably. (To be clear, the same thing happens with Word in exporting to other formats too.)

I just wish conversions with equations was more seamless in general.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#15

Post by indymike »

LO is amazing, and works surprisingly well and at least on Linux, once you get icons colors right works in dark mode (which I love). It would be good to put a cycle or two of clean up on the MacOS version. It works, but has a lot of rough edges - and Mac users tend to be less accepting of visual issues.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#17

Post by derbOac »

sdze wrote: post #11
soufron wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well... MS Office is equally buggy...

Wrong. LO 7.3 crashed with a new Writer Document after I tried to change the toolbar. Imagine such a bad test coverage. icons still blurry on macOS retina display. Chronic bug unsolved since aeons Also due to one-process for all architecture, if one document crashes, it crashes all other documents with it.

fwiw, I use both daily on macos and they are equally buggy for me.

I'm not sure why these sorts of things turn into flamewars so often.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#18

Post by linguae »

I just upgraded to LibreOffice 7.3 after seeing this post, and the upgrade fixed a problem that I had with LibreOffice on Windows 10 that I haven't encountered on other platforms (macOS and Linux), where typing text in LibreOffice Writer had a noticeable delay. After upgrading, the delay is now gone. Thank you LibreOffice developers for resolving this issue; I've been using LibreOffice ever since it forked from OpenOffice.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#19

Post by sleepless »

sdze wrote: post #11
soufron wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well... MS Office is equally buggy...

Wrong. LO 7.3 crashed with a new Writer Document after I tried to change the toolbar. Imagine such a bad test coverage. icons still blurry on macOS retina display. Chronic bug unsolved since aeons Also due to one-process for all architecture, if one document crashes, it crashes all other documents with it.

Blurry icons on macOS: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122113 Crash with Skia on macOS: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145843 Crash on intel macs on macOS Monterey: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146759

LO needs more general QA testing and more dev time invested towards macOS the neglected OS. All this needs to be financed and things are not so easy finding solutions for this decade old problem.

Re: LibreOffice 7.3

#20

Post by sleepless »

sdze wrote: post #10
commoner wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The HiDPI bug on macOS was fixed in LibreOffice 7.1.2: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138122

Ok... UI (icons) still looks blurry for me.

Blurry icons on macOS: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122113
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