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LibreOffice 24.2 Released For This Leading Free Software Office Suite (www.phoronix.com)
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[-] mtchristo@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why libre office hasn't adopted the tabbed many bar yet is beyond me ! They are probably not gonna be sued by Microsoft. It is just a huge ux improvement and would ease the friction for new comers especially that everyone is used to using tabbed bar on every other software.

[-] Unsaved5831@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago

I actually prefer it that way. With tabbed Ribbons (Is it how they're called?), I constantly have to look over and over again which tab the thing I need is located, ending up in question why X is put here but not there.

[-] optissima@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago

Have you trued their grouped mode (I think that's what it was called?) It does well to combine the benefits of both last I saw it!

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 months ago

It has it as a setting. It should be default though

[-] frogmint@beehaw.org 7 points 9 months ago

They have it, it's a setting

[-] mtchristo@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

I know. I was talking about making it default. As many newcomers won't know about it's existence first hand, and give up on it

[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 5 points 9 months ago

it has that as a setting, but it more of an afterthought

[-] words_number@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

"improvement" lol xD

I hate that BS with a passion. Never find anything I need and always spend way more clicks than needed for simple tasks.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It improves discoverability for new users, just like having menus and submenus instead of a single list of commands, or just a command prompt.

If you're used to the old ways, of course it doesn't help... and if you know your shortcuts or command line commands, even a menu becomes a hindrance ๐Ÿคท

[-] ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Is this tabbed user interface what you're asking for?
https://books.libreoffice.org/en/IG72/IG7212-UserInterfaceVariants.html#toc8

[-] mtchristo@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Yes some call it tabbed menu. Others call it ribbon menu. It should be the default as many users nowadays are used to this UX paradigm

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

Based on this comment section, it isn't all that clear which one should be the default... probably a compromise could be made by adding a more obvious way to switch between the modes.

[-] scratchresistor@thelemmy.club 9 points 9 months ago

And try as I might, it still looks horrible ๐Ÿ˜”

[-] words_number@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago

I love it and use it all the time, especially calc. But one thing I'd really like to see is a fix for the fact that the icons up top look absolutely horrendous on high DPI screens, no matte the icon theme used (svg or not).

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 9 months ago

๐Ÿค– I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:

Click here to see the summaryLibreOffice 24.2 is now available as the latest major update to this leading cross-platform, free software office suite to compete with the likes of Microsoft Office.

Besides switching to a YEAR.MONTH based versioning scheme (and releasing at the tail end of January...), LibreOffice 24.2 also delivers on many improvements and other enhancements to this word processor, spreadsheet, and other open-source alternatives to Microsoft Office.

LibreOffice 24.2 features include improved multi-page floating tables, Small Caps for LibreOffice Impress, "save auto-recovery information" is now enabled by default, "always create backup copies" is also now enabled by default, there is now a password strength meter when saving documents with a password, and various other improvements.

More details on the many great changes in LibreOffice 24.2 can be found via the release notes.

Those wanting to install LibreOffice 24.2 directly as opposed from your Linux distribution's package management system can find all the LibreOffice 24.2 release binaries up on LibreOffice.org.

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[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 6 points 9 months ago

Saved 0% of original text. :::

So... basically fuck this website?

[-] Icarus@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Most phoronix articles are pretty much straight to the point actually. I haven't regularly visited them in a while but they were a good source for open source news, and might still be.

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah I agree. Which is why the bot copying all its text here and denying them any traffic from this link aggregator site is bad.

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