LibreOffice is missing the forest for the trees with this: yes, the ribbon isn’t the greatest paradigm, but the open-source suite looks like it hasn’t had any visual update at all since 2003.
looks like it hasn’t had any visual update at all since 2003
You’ve pointed out another great feature – no change-for-change’s-sake bullshit.
Document editing is a solved UX : except for occasional minor changes, there’s no need to fuck with the UI. Compare Tesla fucking with cabin controls in the cars and how the planet is going back to having the fucking knobs in the cars instead of in the design meetings.
Well, jokes aside, MS had keyboard shortcuts when they launched, and supported legacy menus too. LibreOffice, by contrast, is experimenting with several different menubar replacements, but they’re all half-baked and look like they were developed in Office 2003 times.
Rather than a facsimile, I’d just call the LibreOffice ribbon a distant cousin because they’re both office applications. The ribbon does slightly ease the friction of getting people to try LibreOffice, but like with the Windows UI and KDE Plasma, the similarities are surface-level and there are tons of differences. It’d be cool if public education taught people the UI of the commons first, not of the Microsoft defaults.
LibreOffice is missing the forest for the trees with this: yes, the ribbon isn’t the greatest paradigm, but the open-source suite looks like it hasn’t had any visual update at all since 2003.
You’ve pointed out another great feature – no change-for-change’s-sake bullshit.
Document editing is a solved UX : except for occasional minor changes, there’s no need to fuck with the UI. Compare Tesla fucking with cabin controls in the cars and how the planet is going back to having the fucking knobs in the cars instead of in the design meetings.
I’m pretty sure a facsimile of the ribbon interface is available in LibreOffice.
There is… It’s just really not very good. Last time I checked, it didn’t have keyboard shortcuts.
So it’s a faithful homage to the ribbon mess, then. Yay!
Well, jokes aside, MS had keyboard shortcuts when they launched, and supported legacy menus too. LibreOffice, by contrast, is experimenting with several different menubar replacements, but they’re all half-baked and look like they were developed in Office 2003 times.
Rather than a facsimile, I’d just call the LibreOffice ribbon a distant cousin because they’re both office applications. The ribbon does slightly ease the friction of getting people to try LibreOffice, but like with the Windows UI and KDE Plasma, the similarities are surface-level and there are tons of differences. It’d be cool if public education taught people the UI of the commons first, not of the Microsoft defaults.