Can anyone tell me what is wrong with LibreOffice?

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Owen Thomas schreef op 06-10-2017 12:07:

> My faith in LibreOffice has been tested these few years because it 
> seems that large pieces of it haven't been functioning for a while. The 
> format paintbrush mechanism apparently hasn't been working for about 
> two years.

> Recently, I've been trying to use LibreOffice for the first time after 
> I installed 16.04, and I find that the spell checker is broken for 
> Australian and UK English. It simply won't pick up spelling mistakes 
> (neither as I type nor when I request a scan of the document) after I 
> select either dictionary. I can't ask this question of 
> ask.libreoffice.org because I can't get past the robot detection 
> mechanism - that seems to be broken also. I think Ubuntu has to make a 
> decision whether it should find and put resources toward making Libre 
> Office function, or remove it from the default installation.

I can only say that I agree that LibreOffice is still, as OpenOffice 
also was I must say, an application with incredible annoying behaviour 
from time to time, most notably causing you to be writing in margins or 
font sizes that you did not expect, ruining your documents for a long 
time, often forcing you to rewrite them.

It can be called human error but this human error happens so often to me 
and has caused me so much damage that it's absolutely not a 'fun' thing 
to experience.

After a while you get to learn all the pitfalls but LibreOffice 
developers in general or the community ever refuse to acknowledge that 
anything is wrong with the product so the product also never improves.

Right now again some text changed from 12.0 point to 12.3 point without 
me noticing because I had been in some 12.3 text at some point 
somewhere.

This can be called normal operation sure.

It happens so often to me that it just makes me sick (literally).

Regards.