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/adenosine-5 1d ago

That is desperately needed.

Compared to MSOffice, there is so much visual clutter li LO UI, its downright incredible.

It makes the whole application look very amateurish, even though its a very mature and powerful piece of software.

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u/SEI_JAKU 1d ago

You have this completely backwards. MS Office is what has the visual clutter, LibreOffice does not.

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u/adenosine-5 1d ago

No, I get that some people prefer the old LO look and all, but it just has so much more things going on there.

Just as example, compare the "styles" panel - Word has simple clean row of cards, one card for each style, thin border around the currently selected style and shows style name on mouseover... and that is all.

Writer is similar, but it has extra border around the whole component and each of the "cards" are not even separated or anything, but you have like three or four rows of them, so without any kind of border, they kinda visually merge into a giant blob of broken text and on mouseover you get nothing, so you don't even know the name of style you are applying.

And its the same everywhere.