Many bugs are over 10 years old, and it doesn't seem to have any substantial progress in terms of stability, ease of use, or usability. LO development feels more of a 'let's experiment with adding this new feature', rather than a serious product development.
I wish there was a new open-source office suite in development, especially when languages like Rush are now available.
The real issue I suspect is - who needs to create "documents" any more? I use Calc without any issues to do spreadsheet stuff, but have never needed to share one with anyone else. Writer, not for years. People often work on things they want to use, so getting commitment might be getting more difficult.
My question is, assuming you are not a business, what do you use LibreOffice for?
Um, lots of people? MS-Office is still heavily used.
The bigger issue is who needs to create "documents" AND prefers open source software BUT not command line utilities.
As a student, I write school papers regularly. I also use LibreOffice to write my Resume/CV when I apply for a job.
I can't say it's the most elegant software I've used but I don't have these problems you're referring to. Microsoft Office has a certain amount of polish but has its own bugs, and I always felt that the UX was implemented in a kind of inconsistent way. I can't say I have a preference for one suite versus another.
I agree with you that I wish there were additional office suites, but that's only because I wish there was more competition in the space in general. I'm not sure any (either?) of the major offerings I really love.
We need a way to finance open source development. We need enough money for thousands of programmers . Fix that then we'll get all the fixes the software needs.
The reason for that behavior is probably very deep flaws in the layout code, and no single person can hold that algorithm in head, so this is never going to be fixed unless somebody goes and thinks very deeply, and works on it for months or a year exclusively.
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LO Writer as a word processor feels good enough to me. LO Writer as an editor for Word docx files feels unpolished, but I don't work with docx anyway. I think this applies to all the LO software when working with corresponding Office files.
Just like me, perhaps the developers of LO feel it's good enough? Perhaps their default OS and environment provide a smooth experience? Perhaps they don't work with Office files much?
Right now, I use 'OnlyOffice' an open-source office mannagement. It works really great (better than libreoffice, in my opinion). It has no particular bugs which will hamper production.
I don't consider LibreOffice to be bad. Quite the opposite.
You have no idea the amount of effort, dedication or self-motivation required to produce software, therefore the discussion can never go past your personal beef with what it cannot do, versus what you feel it should be able to do.
You're bringing nothing to the table that is new or innovative to the discussion of quality in open source software, only a bash on a project that you feel should be better than it is, based on your non-existent experience of software development.
Discussing open source software isn't forbidden, but trashing the efforts of others when you're not offering to do something about it, with either effort or finance from yourself, I feel, is.
You want to see something better? Start writing it today, come back in six months and then report on how you found the experience, let's see how far you got. Perhaps you might be a little less critical of people's free, hell, even salaried, effort and time.
There's definitely something about walking a mile in another man's shoes for you to do here.
