▲ 27 ▼ Euro-Office, a good fork of highly criticized ONLYOFFICE (github.com) submitted 7 months ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/opensource@programming.dev 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments I found that someone from Europe just forked ONLYOFFICE. I really hope this could be a good alternative
[–] Tywele@piefed.social 5 points 7 months ago (2 children) What’s so terrible about LibreOffice‘s UI? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] cschreib@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago To me it's less about the aesthetics and more about ergonomics. I still feel at times that the UI, specifically the toolbar, is jumbled together without much cohesion. Or that the interface has been designed to allow entering inputs to someone else's tool, rather than built for me to do what I need. I'm sure some of it can probably be customized; I don't actually use it that much that I feel the need to tinker. permalink fedilink source parent [–] jeffep@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago It's massively inconsistent, lacks good defaults, stuff moves around everywhere, sizing is off. It's just a grown project that lacks a serious effort to work on the UX. It's free to use of course, but I think in 2026 the standards are just different permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cschreib@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago To me it's less about the aesthetics and more about ergonomics. I still feel at times that the UI, specifically the toolbar, is jumbled together without much cohesion. Or that the interface has been designed to allow entering inputs to someone else's tool, rather than built for me to do what I need. I'm sure some of it can probably be customized; I don't actually use it that much that I feel the need to tinker. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jeffep@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago It's massively inconsistent, lacks good defaults, stuff moves around everywhere, sizing is off. It's just a grown project that lacks a serious effort to work on the UX. It's free to use of course, but I think in 2026 the standards are just different permalink fedilink source parent