This is such an important project that I think I will setup a recurring monthly donation.
I mostly use Calc and I’ve held back donating because honestly it is not that good (irrational, I know). Specially if you’re an excel power-ish user.
But lately it has been satisfying all my personal spreadsheet needs. Even though it has major pain points. I’ve tried every other spreadsheet app in Linux and honestly they all suck.
I guess our best bet is to rally behind this project and hope it gets as good as Linux so that it really competes with office.
Kudos to the team and really excited to try the pivot tables calculated formulas. Pivot table feature parity is what I am missing the most!
* UX/UI issues. For example, in dark mode I can barely see some icons. This is minor.
* Laggy scrolling. If your mouse scrolls too fast the spreadsheet doesn’t go as fast.
* Buggy automatic range detection. If you add more rows at the end of a dataset the auto filter won’t detect those new records even after reset.
The interface was designed at least 20 years ago and hasn't kept up. They've been gluing on elements of newer UIs but keeping the old around. You can keep an Office 2003 style menu but also have an Office 2007+ ribbon to very quickly make it an unintelligble mess. Other contemporary Office suites like OnlyOffice handled things so much better by comparison.
Smaller elements such as just trying to do something where you knew where it was in Word versus LibreOffice is also a convoluted mess. PivotTables for example in Calc are almost complete nonsense.
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This is such an important project that I think I will setup a recurring monthly donation.
I mostly use Calc and I’ve held back donating because honestly it is not that good (irrational, I know). Specially if you’re an excel power-ish user.
But lately it has been satisfying all my personal spreadsheet needs. Even though it has major pain points. I’ve tried every other spreadsheet app in Linux and honestly they all suck.
I guess our best bet is to rally behind this project and hope it gets as good as Linux so that it really competes with office.
Kudos to the team and really excited to try the pivot tables calculated formulas. Pivot table feature parity is what I am missing the most!
ACLU, EFF, LibreOffice... Anyone have more suggestions for general purpose cyber-liberties?
What are the pain points?
Off the top of my head:
* UX/UI issues. For example, in dark mode I can barely see some icons. This is minor.
* Laggy scrolling. If your mouse scrolls too fast the spreadsheet doesn’t go as fast. * Buggy automatic range detection. If you add more rows at the end of a dataset the auto filter won’t detect those new records even after reset.
* Pivot table feature parity. Calculated fields specifically (apparently this release fixes it)
* Dynamic arrays and tables
The interface was designed at least 20 years ago and hasn't kept up. They've been gluing on elements of newer UIs but keeping the old around. You can keep an Office 2003 style menu but also have an Office 2007+ ribbon to very quickly make it an unintelligble mess. Other contemporary Office suites like OnlyOffice handled things so much better by comparison.
Smaller elements such as just trying to do something where you knew where it was in Word versus LibreOffice is also a convoluted mess. PivotTables for example in Calc are almost complete nonsense.