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That's not good at all. If you log a bug, you should be able to send over the documents in confidence - this sounds pretty bad.
Next time I encounter this, I'll definitely do it. I might still have a file around that's doing it, in which case, I'll give it a send hopefully today or tomorrow. Thanks!
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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi So that's a UTF-8 file? Funny it's coming up with UTF-16...
Filed. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88909 It should just be a US-ASCII file, so yeah, UTF-8 works, while UTF-16 obviously wouldn't.
The "design problems" aren't the colors, it's being responsive to exactly what users want to do without putting unnecessary interface elements in their way.
Take a look at HackPad for an example of great text editing experiences.
Windows user here. It's not particularly any prettier, and Calc doesn't open CSVs correctly anymore. So yeah, there's that. http://i.imgur.com/i1YuVXA.png
Even opening Calc first then using its menu to open a .txt opens the file in LibreOffice Writer!
And then of course Gnome's (on Linux) file browsers no longer support renaming of files in the browsers, so you have to mess around elsewhere.
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Filed. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88909 It should just be a US-ASCII file, so yeah, UTF-8 works, while UTF-16 obviously wouldn't.
Cheers.
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Have you ever tried contributing to a popular FOSS product? I have. Expect to be downvoted, yelled at, etc for suggesting change, especially change that's an emotional issue for geeks (implementing a ribbon-like interface, you know the one started by the 'evil' microsoft). Linus's childish attitude is pretty much the poster boy for this attitude. Namecalling is the norm. There are so many cultural and management issu…
You know, even though I think there are pretty decent Linux DEs today (I'll gladly take Gnome 3 over the OSX or Windows GUIs), you are completely right about the community having an awful attitude towards their designers. See all the hate thrown at Gnome 3, Unity and Pantheon... Those projects are the only ones keeping Linux from looking like it's 10-20 years behind its competitors in UI design.
Where it gets really annoying is when they remove the options - our way or the highway, again something borroed straight from Apple.
(yeah, a little tongue in cheek is implied here, I am bo designer and I haven't done much research in UX)
While I appreciate effort put into making the interface prettier, one of the things that really detracts from LibreOffice and why I almost invariably end up installing MS Word for clients is the confusing way which the mail merge system is designed in LibreOffice. I've done it enough times now to know mostly how to get it working for myself, but there's no way in hell I'll try teaching a client how to do a mail merge…
While the icons may have gotten flatter, it still didn't fix any of the major information architecture issues that plague MSWord clones of the 2000s. The "design problems" aren't the colors, it's being responsive to exactly what users want to do without putting unnecessary interface elements in their way. Take a look at HackPad for an example of great text editing experiences.
Windows user here. It's not particularly any prettier, and Calc doesn't open CSVs correctly anymore. So yeah, there's that. http://i.imgur.com/i1YuVXA.png
Earlier this week I wasted 45 minutes trying to figure out why the software I've been writing was producing Chinese CSVs, before I finally thought to open them in some software other than LibreOffice. Thanks, Libre!
But it does look like our default option is now UTF-16, there's now a bug logged about this - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88909
Sorry that your experience wasn't great though :-(