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The Document Foundation is the small non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. It oversees the project and community, and is now expanding with new developer roles. So let’s say hello to Dan Williams, who joins the team to work on design and user interface (UI) improvements, with an initial focus on macOS: Tell us a bit about yourself! I’m from the USA, have lived on both US coasts at various times, and now live back in the “midwest” where I grew up. I was previously a software engineer, team lead, and manager at Red Hat for more than 20 years. In that time I’ve worked on a large variety of projects, from local networking to cloud networking to desktop software. I spent two years helping build the One Laptop Per Child software stack which was an eye-opening experience from a UI and design perspective. I believe passionately in free and open-source software; all the code I’ve written so far in my career is open-source. Oddly enough, I’m not new to the LibreOffice community; I was an OpenOffice contributor and co-founded the NeoOffice port to Mac OS X (now called macOS). That led to being hired by Red Hat to package and improve

excited to see what this means for the project, the poor UI/UX of libreoffice is easily its most glaring flaw imo

  • warmaster@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Agreed, if you grew using another program, switching is hard unless it’s UX/UI is superb.

    When I ditched Adobe, Inkscape was a breeze. GIMP is hard AF and Krita a bit easier but it doesn’t have the features I need. I ended up using Photopea, and now I’ve tried Affinity and it’s the best Photoshop alternative I’ve tried yet.

    Collabora is looking pretty good so far. Still a few rough edges but easier than any other FOSS office software.

      • VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml
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        1 month ago

        Inkscape was hell for me when I tried it years ago. I just had no clue where to find stuff and how to navigate properly. Maybe I have to give it another try.

        • Ardens@lemmy.ml
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          1 month ago

          Says more about you than Inkscape. Seriously. It’s build like literally almost every other program out there. Tools to the left, menus at the top, navigation and other windows at the right. How can you not find stuff?

            • Ardens@lemmy.ml
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              1 month ago

              I’m quite serious. That’s why I wrote “seriously”. ;-)

              I guess I hit a nerve, since you didn’t tell me how you can not find stuff…