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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man if Libre peeps and OnlyOffice UI/UX devs joined forces, we would be living in the year 3000.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The only problem with that logic is that OnlyOffice is a webapp, thus slow. Libre is Java but still faster.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

AFAIK Libreoffice only uses Java for limited things and isn’t a requirement.

Pretty sure it’s mostly C++

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correct, Java is only needed for (letter) templates and macros.
I used it for years without any JVM installed... until I wanted to use a template. :(

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been using LibreOffice as an MS Office replacement for a decade or so, although most of my documents are still on Google docs. The LibreOffice UI seems to have never really improved at all, and even the updating experience is annoying. I don't understand how such a lucrative productivity app has no developer support behind it?

OpenOffice got me really excited, because that UI seems modern and polished. It's really unfortunate that it's mostly we lb based and apparently really slow.

So yeah, 100% agree with you. LibreOffice with the OpenOffice UI would be 🔥

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume you mean OnlyOffice

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Oops, yeah, I did!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Btw, There's about 4 UI's with two variants each in view > user interface.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I did not know that, I'll check out the other options, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Idk, LibreOffice UI seems pretty decent for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's this the new UI? It's been a while since I use LibreOffice and the UI was worse than office 2003.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's not a default but I just changed it to tabbed view in the settings, picked Sifr icons in the settings, and installed adw-gtk3 theme on GNOME which makes gtk3 apps blend more with the default libadwaita GNOME theme.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's actually not bad! Thanks!

Before

After

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Actually my dad prefer the default UI. But he used Windows 95 and the office suite that goes with it for a long time, so his habits are hard to loose.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

OnlyOffice vs LibreOffice?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just prefer the looks of OnlyOffice, but I have heard people having localization problems with it. For my tiny use cases it has worked good so far.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

isn't onlyoffice as a service only. can it be installed as just a local application?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

No it's a local application like Libre. Can also be ran in the cloud.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

They offer a SaaS to pay the bills, and a standalone desktop editor suite for us Linux users

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, you can download their "Desktop Editors"

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, for instance on the iPad with a keyboard I've issues typing Latin chars. Reported multiple times, still not fixed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I use both for work... Libre for most things, but for spreadsheets or powerpoints that are a bit more complex, onlyoffice works/looks better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

LibreOffice does have more advanced features though if you don't need the MS Office compatibility.

The preset editing in OO really sucks compared to Libre or MS office (only desktop)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I looked into it I found that onlyoffice is more of a MS office rip. Run by Russians and headquartered in Latvia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You got any more information on this? Also, is there a point to caring if it is an intellectual property rip off and run by a particularly set of people from a particular country?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The PDF editor sounds like a gamechanger. Most office suites dont include one by default.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Everyone here keeps talking about how the UI is amazing, so maybe this is the right place to ask: is there an FOSS office suite that has a command pallet like coding editors and GSuite do, where you can tap a hotkey and type the tool name without having to dig through menus?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LibreOffice has that. Only thing is you'll need to do is set the hotkey manually, I believe the default is Shift+Esc but some LO apps may not have that configured. Go to Tools > Customize > Keyboard. Click inside the shortcut keys pane and press your preferred key combo (I use Ctrl+Shift+P). Then under functions, start typing "search" and look for "Search Commands". Then hit the Modify button to assign the shortcut key to the function. Now if you press Ctrl+Shift+P, it'll bring up the command pallete just like vscode.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Emacs, if you're willing to go down that rabbit hole.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Has they fixed the bug where scrolling horizontally using a mouse that has horizontal scroll wheel (such as logitech mx master) would also scroll the page vertically?

Edit: just tried v7.5.0.127, it still have the scrolling bug. If this bug were fixed I basically have no issue left with onlyoffice, it works very well except for this super annoying bug.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you submitted a bug report?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You know that OnlyOffice doesn't care about bug reports don't you? I mean Latin chars such as "é à í" have been broken in the iPad version while using a keyboard since... ever. Dozens of reports filled by multiple people, problem still there.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bug report was created on Nov 3, 2022: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors/issues/1094. The bug still persists.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There is an even older bug report for this from 2019: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer/issues/536

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Are you a programmer? If so, the code is open source, so you could try fixing it on your own; it doesn't seem that hard to fix. You could try to find where they are handling scroll input and see if there is anything that tells you what direction it is. Then if it's horizontal just ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Even if it's actually an easy fix, as a new contributor you'll need some degree of familiarity with the codebase before you can identify the bug and figure out the proper way to fix it. Getting there may require quite significant time investment, especially for project this big where the code seems to be split across 4 rather large git repos. I don't have much free time left to dig into a large project like this at the moment.

Also, if it's really that easy to fix, I feel like the devs would've fixed this already in the past 4 years, though it's possible the devs simply don't use any mouse with horizontal scroll support to reproduce the issue.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Still waiting for them to admit that a dictionary that automatically changes according to the keyboard you use is a bad idea.
If I manually select the Spanish language it is that I want to write Spanish. Not for the software to switch back to English as soon as I enter any keystroke.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Still waiting on that Wayland support

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Lmao the text on the thumbnail document

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Tell me something, the desktop apps, are they now standalone apps or still that bullshit of a single app that opens everything as tabs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe you can configure that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

While they allow separate Windows they'll all group as a single OnlyOffice app and there won't be separate shortcuts for each one.

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