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It’s more than that though. There are countless improvements, but the option of a more ribbon-like interface is more polished than its ever been, and in many wa
by chris_wot 9y ago
It’s more than that though. There are countless improvements, but the option of a more ribbon-like interface is more polished than its ever been, and in many ways more usable than the Office Ribbon. And I do emphasise that’s an option - we retain the old UI and will always do so for users. We haven’t forced a radical change on them because we actually value our power users.
Aside from way better compatibility improvements with Office interfaces, there are stability fixes, we’ve done extensive document fuzzing, improvements to mail merge, updated our table styles, a huge improvement to our grammar checker, way better OpenPGP integration, a complete rewrite of the EMF+ filters (that has been a huge effort, and a much bigger impact in handling Office docs than you might realise)... the list is huge!
edit: I’ve been rate limited, no idea why (check my history for the last month if you don’t believe me...) so if you want info about the project from a contributor I sadly can’t provide info on HN till someone lifts the rate-limit.
- gmueckl 9y agoHow do you enable this ribbon-like interface?
- chris_wot 9y agoTry the following article - it’s already available as an experimental feature, but it’s very much going into the main release: https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Using_the_notebook_bar/vi https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Using_the_notebook_bar/v...
- krylon 9y ago> We haven’t forced a radical change on them because we actually value our power users. I do not consider myself a power user, but I thank you nevertheless. I despise the ribbon bar. Okay, I have gotten used to it, but still. Thank you!
- dang 9y agoYou know why we rate-limited you, since I've explained it to you in numerous email threads going back more than two years. But for anyone reading this who doesn't know: we rate-limit accounts that post too many low-quality and/or get involved in flamewars. On Hacker News, "low quality" means uncivil or unsubstantive. The standards are described in more detail at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. It's true that your recent comment history has gotten better overall (although this thread itself is pretty borderline). We'll try taking the rate limit off your account for now. To avoid it kicking in again, please stick to civil and substantive comments only.
- chris_wot 9y agoI don't actually. I can publish the emails if you'd like. Not sure what sort of "low quality" comments you have been referring to for the past two years, I'd be happy for you to point them out over email. And how is this thread "borderline"? I explained some info on LibreOffice, as I'm a contributor! Incidentally, this was on the front page only about an hour ago, and now it's on the third page. Curious how this came about?
- dang 9y agoAh, I mistook which thread I was posting to. The borderline thread was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267301 which you were also commenting in. I'll try to give you more of a response later when I have time. In the meantime, though, aggressively barraging us with emails is not helping.
- chris_wot 9y agoWhich, uh, isn't a thread I started.