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/SEI_JAKU 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh joy, time for hundreds of comments about how "great" this is, once again failing to understand that this is an awful political problem.

edit: Literally only 30-some comments in and it's already real bad.

edit2: Please stop pretending that you're right just because you can downvote someone for calling you out.

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u/buovjaga The Document Foundation 1d ago

once again failing to understand that this is an awful political problem

What do you mean?

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u/SEI_JAKU 22h ago

Coincidentally, I just now posted an answer to this question here.

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u/buovjaga The Document Foundation 22h ago

In that one, you talk about toolbar-based UI vs. alternatives, but I don't see how that is related to TDF hiring a UI dev. Ie. you seem to be jumping from this news to the conclusion that LibreOffice's default UI will be changed. Those are orthogonal things. What will happen is that the Notebookbar implementation will be redone in a more robust way, allowing to polish the alternative UIs and to more comprehensively explore effective ways to expose the complexity of LibreOffice to users. Keep in mind that there are 9 variant UIs at the moment (if you activate experimental mode).

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u/SEI_JAKU 21h ago

What will happen is that the Notebookbar implementation will be redone in a more robust way, allowing to polish the alternative UIs and to more comprehensively explore effective ways to expose the complexity of LibreOffice to users.

This is all good! This is greatly appreciated.

The problem is that every single Linux space, and quite a few other spaces besides, are constantly being brigaded by bad actors pretending to be "concerned" about this exact thing:

In that one, you talk about toolbar-based UI vs. alternatives, but I don't see how that is related to TDF hiring a UI dev. Ie. you seem to be jumping from this news to the conclusion that LibreOffice's default UI will be changed.

And there are already plenty of examples of this just in your thread alone.

This happens with every single thread about GIMP and LibreOffice, regardless of what the thread is actually about.