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I've used LibreOffice on my Mac all the way since it first forked from OpenOffice (never had a need for MS Office because I use LaTeX for most important documen

I've used LibreOffice on my Mac all the way since it first forked from OpenOffice (never had a need for MS Office because I use LaTeX for most important document stuff, so mainly just a light office user). I think the UI change on Mac OS is a big step backward unfortunately. Maybe it works better in Mavericks, but in Yosemite it sticks out so much. Yosemite's icon style is super lightweight, and the icons in this update are really heavy, and the gradient in the toolbars doesn't match up at all. Maybe there's a bit of uncanny valley happening because it felt a lot better to use when it didn't try to look like Mac OS... Still a great project and lots of great features (the docx importer updates are awesome, because opening documents other people send me is a large proportion of what I need it for), but I really wish I could find an option to make it look like it used to...

jordigh 12y ago
Does the UI change prevent you from getting work done? Or make it more difficult to accomplish tasks?
- jeorgun 12y ago
  If appearances don't matter, then why the UI overhaul in the first place?
  - jordigh 12y ago
    I don't deny they matter. I am just wondering what kind of mattering they do.
- stephen_g 12y ago
  I'm sure I'll get used to it, but it's distracting as hell at the moment. Half of the problem is that I'll have to learn what all the new icons mean which will take a little while.
orkoden 12y ago
On OS X the [NeoOffice](http://www.neooffice.org http://www.neooffice.org) native port has had better integration than the original for years.
- jrochkind1 12y ago
  Neat. How closely does NeoOffice track LibreOffice (or is it a fork of original OpenOffice and not LibreOffice at all?). For instance, are new features in the latest LibreOffice (like better MS Word import) present in the latest NeoOffice, or will they be soon? That I can't really tell from their web page leaves me not optimistic.
  - davidgerard 12y ago
    It basically doesn't. It tracked Go-OO (the predecessor of LO) up to 3.1, and since then it's just worked from the Go-OO 3.1 codebase, backporting security fixes from AOO and LO as it goes. So it looks more Maclike but in every other way LO is better.
- PhasmaFelis 12y ago
  Did they ever fix the Cmd/Ctrl/Alt-Arrow functions to work the same as they do in every other Mac app? Last time I tried NeoOffice was several years ago, after I got sick of OpenOffice always doing the wrong thing when I tried to word-skip/line-home/whatever and turning my efficient reflexes into frustration. Turned out NeoOffice did exactly the same wrong things. So much for OS X integration.
Udo 12y ago
I found the icons distracting on OS X as well - luckily, LibreOffice ships with alternative icon sets. Go to Preferences > LibreOffice > View, choose "Sifr" as your icon style. That's the look they should have shipped it with by default.

jordigh 12y ago

Does the UI change prevent you from getting work done? Or make it more difficult to accomplish tasks?

jeorgun 12y ago
If appearances don't matter, then why the UI overhaul in the first place?
- jordigh 12y ago
  I don't deny they matter. I am just wondering what kind of mattering they do.
stephen_g 12y ago
I'm sure I'll get used to it, but it's distracting as hell at the moment. Half of the problem is that I'll have to learn what all the new icons mean which will take a little while.

orkoden 12y ago

On OS X the [NeoOffice](http://www.neooffice.org http://www.neooffice.org) native port has had better integration than the original for years.

jrochkind1 12y ago
Neat. How closely does NeoOffice track LibreOffice (or is it a fork of original OpenOffice and not LibreOffice at all?). For instance, are new features in the latest LibreOffice (like better MS Word import) present in the latest NeoOffice, or will they be soon? That I can't really tell from their web page leaves me not optimistic.
- davidgerard 12y ago
  It basically doesn't. It tracked Go-OO (the predecessor of LO) up to 3.1, and since then it's just worked from the Go-OO 3.1 codebase, backporting security fixes from AOO and LO as it goes. So it looks more Maclike but in every other way LO is better.
PhasmaFelis 12y ago
Did they ever fix the Cmd/Ctrl/Alt-Arrow functions to work the same as they do in every other Mac app? Last time I tried NeoOffice was several years ago, after I got sick of OpenOffice always doing the wrong thing when I tried to word-skip/line-home/whatever and turning my efficient reflexes into frustration. Turned out NeoOffice did exactly the same wrong things. So much for OS X integration.

Udo 12y ago

I found the icons distracting on OS X as well - luckily, LibreOffice ships with alternative icon sets. Go to Preferences > LibreOffice > View, choose "Sifr" as your icon style. That's the look they should have shipped it with by default.