After observing some bugs in LO Writer, it seems that some hacks were merged in as fixes:
- Table's losing their formatting after pressing Tab, to insert a new row. - The selected style switching back to the style of the selected area, after a few seconds. To get to the root style, I have to go through multiple dialogs. Other ones (possibly just bugs): - On a multi-monitor setup, on GNOME, when LO Writer is docked on the side closest to the other monitor display area (in my case, the right side), the antialiasing (I presume) breaks and is a little blurry. - Formatting inconsistencies, again, with style inheritance not being followed. Looking at the complexity of the LO codebase, I'm amazed it's even possible to write hacks (I tried, but I couldn't). I like shiny features, but I think the codebase complexity, and lack of attention to basic bugs are connected: I take it that people like to work on cool features, and it's hard to attract people to fix potholes. I wish we had more people like Linus Torvalds, especially in the LO developer community. Again, I've tried to understand and modify LO, but it was too hard. Putting aside the complexity, if I could write working patches, I would try. I'm glad LO works good enough for me now, anyway, with some workarounds. Sincerely, Ben
