https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167250
Bug ID: 167250
Summary: Improve overall LibreOffice appearance and likeness on
Windows
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
i was reiterating over the question of native widgets for LibreOffice on
windows once more after trying a few options and going in half way through the
process. (wip patch :https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/182707)
the problem is that windows doesn't have a "modern" and stable widget toolkit,
winui3 has performance issues and is xaml based. i don't think an
implementation standing on workarounds for workarounds would last (i am willing
to give win32 another try will see how far it goes this time) but even if that
succeeds, libreoffice won't look "modern" because that "modernness" belongs to
winui3 not win32.
assuming that winui3 won't be abandoned by microsoft, it would take me atleast
6 months to get something meaningful if possible at all. i already spent ~2.5
months trying to make win32 work, but since it's not object oriented like gtk
and qt, it didn't work and from the experience i can say that it won't work
without clever tricks.
i have another route in mind, one which in short term improves the ui
situation, and in the long term gives us time and options to ponder over the
native ui options.
according to me (and the users) the problem is "libreoffice doesn't look good
on windows", and one could see it for themselves with a critical eye.
here are the potential areas to improve. note that these are very small issues
by themselves but they add to each other and make libreoffice look "old".
1. no proper toolbar background color, or separators for distinction between
the toolbar region and the document region.
2. crowdedness in the tabbed ui
3. boxy old school tabs
4. calc fitting way more cells at 100% compared to excel. comparison with excel
is even more important here as that's what the users use as the baseline while
comparing.
5. sharp corners in buttons, menus, menu highlights and various widgets like
dropdowns..
6. flat, sharp cornered icons.
7. lack of proper organization of widgets in the tabbed layout
8. lack of smooth scrolling in calc.
9. lack of smooth cell focus rectangle animations in calc
10. no sections on the tabbed ui toolbar and no section labels. sure there are
separators, but i wonder if they mean anything.
11. no checkboxes on the tabbed ui, a lot of space left on the right side
12. sharp corners on treeview boxes, searchboxes and edit boxes
13. missing preview expander widget for the tabbed ui.
14. missing animation controls/previews from the toolbar, they are on the
sidebar but most of the users migrating from mso are not familiar with it, we
need those on the notebookbar as well.
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Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
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