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

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      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 🔥

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

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

        Pretty sure it’s mostly C++

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          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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            Macros should work without JVM. But a few extensions (like the NLP Solver and LanguageTool) require Java.

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            1 year ago

            Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Advanced and uncheck Use a Java runtime environment

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          Okay this is interesting, but still slow as hell to launch and it does fell like a Java app in a lot of ways. Funky UI behaviors like flickering and delays here and there…

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            1 year ago

            Small update, under Windows, if one disables Java, Skia rendering and anti-aliasing it seems to go way faster and the UI behaves better:

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            1 year ago

            Yeah I find it a lot snappier in Fedora than on windows.

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        Being “slower” for an office app is not a deal breaker imo. Having less smooth scrolling or 1s slower image insertion does not negatively impact my ability to write shitty reports.

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          Yeah sure, until you’re dealing with a 50 page document and even the cursor lags and becomes impossible to move stuff around and/or scroll without having to wait looking at “empty pages” that will eventually display your content after 2-3 seconds :)