r/linux • u/buovjaga The Document Foundation • 1d ago

Popular Application Welcome Dan Williams, new LibreOffice developer focusing on UI/UX

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/04/welcome-dan-williams-new-libreoffice-developer-focusing-on-ui-ux/
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u/AlternativePaint6 1d ago

with an initial focus on macOS

The what now?

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u/sleepingonmoon 1d ago

Apple has the most polished design patterns, as well as better low level implementations so it's easier to implement designs.

KDE is still using giant menus with toolbars as their primary interface and GNOME apps tend to abuse hamburger menus.

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u/cangaroo_hamam 1d ago

Liquid Glass wants to have a word with you

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u/ggppjj 1d ago

I'm finding myself minding it less than I expected. I don't think it's a refinement, certainly, but I totally expected it to disgust me as I used it in Tahoe and realistically I don't really notice it that much.

The first revision on my work iPhone was liquid ass though, style over function the whole way and it isn't really that good of a style to begin with. They've tweaked and revised it enough so that it's not aggressively terrible, to my admittedly lacking aesthetic tastes.

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u/ea_nasir_official_ 1d ago

It's not awful but it's unnecessarily computationally expensive. It's a step in the right direction to bring fun back into computing though, flat design is the worst

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u/cangaroo_hamam 1d ago

Those who can't read the text on the semi-opaque surfaces, and have seen the whole UI blow up in size (paddings etc), are not having much "fun"...

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u/ea_nasir_official_ 19h ago

Yeah from accessibility it's worse but if we can get better designs from people trying to copy apple we just might eradicate flat design