Originally posted by tornado99
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Mac OS X Office<< I guess you mean iwork. Mac OS X Office written that way is MS Office.
There is a design team that anyone who thinks they can do better are willing to attempt.
Do beware libreoffice supports 119 languages. MS Office on mac os only supports 27 yet on windows supports 91. Yes there are limitations in the base Mac OS GUI elements that reduce the number of languages you can support and explain why on Mac OS LibreOffice interface absolutely looks out of place due to not using native toolkit and why less language options of MS Office work on Mac OS vs the Windows version.
Its a catch people would not think about that libreoffice has to be culturally neutral to the people who us 119 languages it supports as well.
Reality with libreoffice the requirements to design are hard.
Do note thunderbird has the same problem it supports 59 different languages and Macos only support at best 39. So you have 20 languages the application supports that the Mac OS platform does not support lot of them you cannot use MacOS default toolkit parts to-do.
tornado99 its not just about having a eye for good design here. When you have multi cultures and languages to support doing good design for everyone gets a hell load harder. So projects like libreoffice are always looking for new people join the design team with new ideas crossing fingers that one of them will be good.
There is a horrible fact that a interface that look generally horrible normally does not end up culturally offensive to anyone. Accusing a person not having a good eye for design by most people who do have the mistake that a interface has to look good from their culture point of view not considering need for culture neutrality.
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