Once you throw in line connections, layers, and fatigue, you want to start flipping tables. The movements lack any precision, leading to vague placement, dropping things where you don’t intend to, and clicking through things you didn’t expect. Placing, moving, resizing, and connecting shapes in Draw is an exercise in futility. It’s even worse than typing in an Electron “desktop” application. Characters that appear immediately when I type them in other applications have a noticeable lag, especially in Writer where you’re more likely to do long form text input. The worst is when it buffers your input, leading you to watch in vain as your document or spreadsheet cells fly away long after you stopped scrolling. Lotus 1-2-3 running on my vintage 200MHz Pentium tower next to me scrolls a thousand line spreadsheet more accurately and smoothly, and stops when I lift my finger off the cursor keys.
Scrolling speed is slow, jittery, unpredictable, and easy to overshoot. These are but a few of the most frustrating examples: All of this would have taken a lot of work which, given the install base of macOS and the smugness of many of its users against free/open source GUI applications, was much appreciated.īut performance is where it falls apart. It uses native Mac Open and Save dialog boxes. It has been since at least 2017, and it’s been getting worse.Ĭredit where credit’s due, the software was properly ported to use native Quartz as opposed to spawning an Xorg session. LibreOffice on the Mac is unfit for purpose as much as it pains me to say. I mention all this to provide context for what’s about to come. I use it on my FreeBSD machines now, thanks to the efforts of the ports team. It’s their loss the Sidebar UI alone is worth trying given how much more elegant it is compared to the Office Ribbon. I’ve so internalised how it works that Microsoft Office feels clunky and unintuitive by comparison a comment that garners a mix of disbelief and bemusement on the part of Office people. I’ve been using it since its StarOffice days, then later OOo. LibreOffice is solid software, and the Document Foundation have done a great job maintaing and fostering its development.
Special thanks to Christian Lohmaier for tracking this and finding the issue with Xcode that caused this. Text is still pixel-doubled rather than using the Mac’s native Retina screen resolution, but it’s otherwise significantly improved. Update 2020-03: Version 6.4.2.1 has fixed the blurry text and performance issues below.
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