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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't expect the UI/UX to magically improve, in the same way that e.g. Audacity's is, or Blender's did back in the day.

LibreOffice is ancient and enormous. It would take a decent sized team several years to overhaul its UX.

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[–] deeferg@lemmy.ca 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

Has Audacity gotten better since I used it as a teen to record songs around 2010? Loved the product but my god was it ever tough to look at.

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[–] DanWolfstone@leminal.space 5 points 10 months ago

It has! The current project lead shows some of the ideas in a video

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 18 points 10 months ago

Welcome to the team, Dan! Can't wait to see where you take things. :)

[–] andioop@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thrilled. I recently started trying LibreOffice thanks to a friend of mine and I admit that as someone used to Microsoft Office or Google Workspace, I feel like a total idiot always searching up "how to [do something] libreoffice" for things I know how to do already in Office/Workspace (or am confident I could figure out by fooling around in them for a few minutes).

[–] ap1werks@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

he's seem some shit, and he's gonna see more!

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Please fix horizontal scrolling in Calc first 😩 it's a PITA to work with sheets that have wide columns.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

It is so for anything having tables, from what I see.
Dev has to consider whether snapping is a better idea or smooth scrolling is and toolkits seem to have snapping as the default.

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Well, the biggest comparison I can draw is Excel and it does not have this visual limitation. Make it a toggle if people prefer, but sometimes a column is wider than your screen width, which renders the sheet unusable.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

I don't really remember enough about Excel anymore, but considering that I don't remember having that problem despite how many years I used it, I guess that is the case with it.

And yes, a toggle would be nice. In fact, a few months ago, I was thinking of putting up a request over to the LibreOffice team, when I was working on the table view of another OSS project, but then procrastinated until I forgot. Honestly, if there are enough people that have a problem with this little thingy, it'd be better off fixed. Specially in the Qt implementation at least, it really is just a boolean toggle even for the developer.

Would you like to put up a bug report to them?

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

This has been reported many times over many years. From what I understand it's not easy to fix.

2011:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40917

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 point 10 months ago*

Hmm. Well, I guess they are not using the Qt Widgets TableView then.
Perhaps I'll take a look too, next time I feel like.

Oof that's a lot of reports. And even a survey

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago*

srsly though it's astonishing just how much global geopolitics hinges on whether this is successful. MS Office is the main blocker to the EU migrating off US tech.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Liquid glass coming soon.

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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago

Liquid glass? Sounds hot. 🤡