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> LibreOffice’s UI is extremely dated imo It feels so bland and hard to read. Maybe that's because of java. How did Excel 5.0 look so good?
by nurettin 8mo ago
> LibreOffice’s UI is extremely dated imo
It feels so bland and hard to read. Maybe that's because of java. How did Excel 5.0 look so good?
- ahartmetz 8mo agoThere is no Java in core LibreOffice, it just has some weird Java-based extension system because of its Sun history. LibreOffice uses an extremely dated, also messy, homegrown UI toolkit and has resisted the idea of switching to something last (really) updated this millennium (sic).
- chris_wot 8mo agoI am currently trying to wrangle this UI. It is called VCL and it was initially created in the early 1990s. If you want to see my efforts, I have a number of branches on github: Phase 5 can be located here: https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/tree/phase5-recording https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/tr... Check the source here: https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/tree/phase5-recording/vcl/source https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/tr... in particular keep an eye on: https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/tree/phase5-recording/vcl/source/outdev https://github.com/chrissherlock/libreoffice-experimental/tr...