Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 Brings A Handful Of Bug Fixes

[andyprough]

See here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...c-a15a859a693a

The canvas is dark, black font becomes white. it works the same in Onenote (though not in Powerpoint or Excel I think)

Same thing in LibreOffice on my system when I enable "Dark Mode" -

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[Estranged1906]

So there is one I still have never seen it in real life. All versions of Microsoft word I have contact with don't have the feature.

See here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...c-a15a859a693a

The canvas is dark, black font becomes white. it works the same in Onenote (though not in Powerpoint or Excel I think)

[oiaohm]

Have you heard of the one called "Microsoft Word"?

So there is one I still have never seen it in real life. All versions of Microsoft word I have contact with don't have the feature.

[Estranged1906]

I have not seen a single wordprocessor program that in document section allows viewing the document in "negitive mode" (basically inverted RGB.)
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Have you heard of the one called "Microsoft Word"?

[oiaohm]

I had really looked forward to the dark mode, but it was disappointing because it was useless. The whole point of dark mode is that it should be dark, but the document background was jarringly white, even more jarring than with a light theme due to the intense contrast.

Bad news you don't have a choice unless you go back to old school word processor before WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Get) without getting yourself into trouble. Your printer has white paper in it right uid313.

Libreoffice does allow changing the "Document background colour" this is not changed by default when setting the dark theme due to this would now not match paper colour and leads to issues of not being able to see text.

I have not seen a single wordprocessor program that in document section allows viewing the document in "negitive mode" (basically inverted RGB.)

Do note darkmode on webbrowsers normally leave the websites black on white text alone. This is a case were you would have to totally go hey we are breaking WYSIWYG and applying a negative filter over everything because if you don't you will have like text set black you set document background colour to black and now the text disappears.

Another missing feature is in document to be able to set page color for cases where you will be using a particular colour paper. Yes if this feature is implemented this should throw up warning when you try to print document about the document being design for X color paper make sure printer is loaded with it..

[Slartifartblast]

All 3 OO users are very excited by this news.

[Tuxee]

I had really looked forward to the dark mode, but it was disappointing because it was useless. The whole point of dark mode is that it should be dark, but the document background was jarringly white, even more jarring than with a light theme due to the intense contrast.

Not shit, Sherlock.
You know that you can set both theme AND application colors? No? Thought so:

https://www.debugpoint.com/how-to-enable-dark-mode-libreoffice/

[acobar]

The user interface was terrible, every variant of them, really, really terrible.
I messed around with LO Base and LO Impress and couldn't understand anything, I was just confused and had no idea how to accomplish anything. LO Writer and LO Sheets were slightly better but still shitty. Everything was overwhelming and looked like something from three decades ago. Microsoft Office and Google Docs are a breeze to work with. I haven't tried OnlyOffice, maybe I should try that.

My guess is that it is white because most of us print on white paper. On many of my machines I picked some gray to be used instead.

[ClosedSource]

While it's great that open source allows projects to fork in order to suit the needs of differing opinions, it's not so great when one of the projects stagnates.

This is a large flaw in the open source software model.

[sveld]

I had really looked forward to the dark mode, but it was disappointing because it was useless. The whole point of dark mode is that it should be dark, but the document background was jarringly white, even more jarring than with a light theme due to the intense contrast.



I tried the ribbon design, it was one of the things that I had really looked forward to and had me excited, but it left me disappointed. It did not feel polished at all. It looked really cheap and like a poor attempt at imitation.

Admittedly I never tried to change the icon theme. I kind of expect some sane defaults and a good out-of-the-box experience.

Even "good" out of the box experiences won't please everybody, that's why there is choice in menu bar classic style or multiple tabbed variant which are meant for specific use cases (like screen size). Same goes for the icon set, which is dependent on using Windows, MacOS or Linux, then there's a few different options you can choose from pending whatever you like.

The sheet is white default, which you obviously can change easily from Extras->Options> LibreOffice> Application colors> Document background.
I've seen quite some document where the text was set manually to "black" resulting in almost invisible letters when the sheet was set to dark, guess that's the reason the default sheet is white for now...