Because there isn't really many known profile in that field with each a pool of experienced users wanting it, like there is eg in code editor (where most major editor offer a set to mimic vim, emacs, visual studio, ...).
There is only "the norm" and "other random stuff nobody asked for". The norm being the ones used since forever in office and copied by every other office suite since.
And frankly your average office user (John from accounting, Denise from marketing, ...) does not have as much will to learn new shortcuts as devs do. So if devs insist on keeping theirs, it's obviously not even a question for the others.
That there aren't many commonly used profiles only makes it easier to ship the few that are used. I guess that 'whatever Libreffice used before' and 'Excel' would cover 90+% of demand.
There even is a precedent: Word used to (maybe still does) ship with optional keybindings for WordPerfect compatibility. I also vaguely remember excel having a set of Lotus-123 keybindings.
Oh wow, blast from the past. I vaguely recall that being able to use WP keybindings was a key reason why my dad's company eventually switched to MOFT Word, despite constantly complaining about it at the same time.
I was pretty young then, so I never completely understood or cared why they went from WordPerfect to MS Office. It had something to do with the Windows version of WP being shit, but Word missing the 'underwater screen', among other things.
All I remember is that after initially being impressed by the full-color fancy pen on the loading screen, I was mostly annoyed at how slow and unstable everything had become with Word. That feeling stayed with me until probably at least Windows XP.
I find it interesting how many of the discussions I have these days really boil down to the same issues that I feel were central to the WP/Word fued: control vs convenience, following the trends vs doing what seems logically optimal (convention over configuration?), as well as the huge shift from keyboard/command-line type interfaces to mouse/windowed environments.
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They could offer keyboard shortcut sets/bundles/profiles/themes that you could switch and revert all at once.
That strikes me as so obvious that I don't understand why this is the case. Could anyone with more knowledge on the matter elaborate?
Because there isn't really many known profile in that field with each a pool of experienced users wanting it, like there is eg in code editor (where most major editor offer a set to mimic vim, emacs, visual studio, ...).
There is only "the norm" and "other random stuff nobody asked for". The norm being the ones used since forever in office and copied by every other office suite since.
And frankly your average office user (John from accounting, Denise from marketing, ...) does not have as much will to learn new shortcuts as devs do. So if devs insist on keeping theirs, it's obviously not even a question for the others.
Really weird move there by libreoffice.
That there aren't many commonly used profiles only makes it easier to ship the few that are used. I guess that 'whatever Libreffice used before' and 'Excel' would cover 90+% of demand.
There even is a precedent: Word used to (maybe still does) ship with optional keybindings for WordPerfect compatibility. I also vaguely remember excel having a set of Lotus-123 keybindings.
Oh wow, blast from the past. I vaguely recall that being able to use WP keybindings was a key reason why my dad's company eventually switched to MOFT Word, despite constantly complaining about it at the same time.
I was pretty young then, so I never completely understood or cared why they went from WordPerfect to MS Office. It had something to do with the Windows version of WP being shit, but Word missing the 'underwater screen', among other things.
All I remember is that after initially being impressed by the full-color fancy pen on the loading screen, I was mostly annoyed at how slow and unstable everything had become with Word. That feeling stayed with me until probably at least Windows XP.
I find it interesting how many of the discussions I have these days really boil down to the same issues that I feel were central to the WP/Word fued: control vs convenience, following the trends vs doing what seems logically optimal (convention over configuration?), as well as the huge shift from keyboard/command-line type interfaces to mouse/windowed environments.