Congrats Dan!
Honestly, since I switched from LibreOffice to OnlyOffice, I’m much more happy with it; it looks and feels so much better and more mature
The header navigation, and normal scroll bar.
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.
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).
Please fix horizontal scrolling in Calc first 😩 it’s a PITA to work with sheets that have wide columns.
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.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.
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?
This has been reported many times over many years. From what I understand it’s not easy to fix.
2011:
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
he’s seem some shit, and he’s gonna see more!
Thank god
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.
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.
It has! The current project lead shows some of the ideas in a video
Welcome to the team, Dan! Can’t wait to see where you take things. :)
Liquid glass coming soon.
Liquid glass? Sounds hot. 🤡
