Comment by lordofgibbons
6 days ago
I wish there was a fund we could pool money into to make LibreOffice less ugly to look at. I'll happily donate to the cause.
6 days ago
I wish there was a fund we could pool money into to make LibreOffice less ugly to look at. I'll happily donate to the cause.
Might not be what you are looking for, but I missed this option for a LONG time, so, in case you don't know, you can enable tabbed ribbon interface in LibreOffice, and I think it looks better. https://itsfoss.com/libreoffice-ribbon-interface/
If denmark was to successfully adopt libreoffice they would probably invest in its upkeep aswell
Preventing another migration is a cost reduction in itself
I've switched to mainly using the onlyoffice suite (AGPL3) a few years ago for UI/UX reasons. Don't know why people act like libreoffice is the only game in town.
That’s the nice thing about Open Source. Nothing’s stopping you from organizing this yourself.
This is the standard voice of someone who's never had to deal with a badly maintained or managed open source product or an asshole maintainer or had to run a fork for 6 years because no one will merge a trivial fix in. Or had a LibreOffice bug open for a decade.
Yeah I can really get in there and spend 2 years ripping the horrible UI out, then have to run a fork because it's not of interest to the maintainers and will never be merged.
At that point I'll just use MS office. Costs me 10 minutes salary a month.
I don't understand these stories: Do people talk to the maintainer before they work on the change? If not, why not? It seems necessary and obvious to get people on board before you invest in something.
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But you can't fix that one either.
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Not everyone has an extra 20 hours a week to contribute to open source, and I'm assuming a project as big as LibreOffice has a lot of non-technical hurdles in place for anyone new. It's perfectly reasonable to donate to people already working on it tho.
He didn't want to do work himself, he wanted to contribute monetarily and have the desired outcome provided to him. That's the not-nice thing about Open Source.
The comment said 'organizing this', not doing the development work. That could mean crowdfunding to fund development of the desired outcome.
A faff, of course, but perhaps a better deal than contributing monetarily to Microsoft to have Copilot shoved in your face instead of the features you actually want.
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Laughs in Wayland.
Sometimes no amount or organising or doing the work yourself can move things forward appreciably.
Opportunity cost can’t be ignored, and that is absolutely a huge cost.
The converse of this is the bad thing about open source. Although seemingly nothing's stopping people sometimes, somehow stuff still tend not to get done.