The new application background included in LibreOffice 3.6 Mac version is too much bright and this causes eyestrain, and gives an unprofessional look. Attaching screenshot and marking this as regression.
Created attachment 89976 [details] Current background
Created attachment 89977 [details] Better view with a darker background
Created attachment 89978 [details] How should it be (1) - Word
Created attachment 89979 [details] How should it be (2) - Pages
Created attachment 89980 [details] How should it be (3) - Bean
I am sorry to say that but these changes along with Bug 57433 are meant to be enhancements, but in fact they are regressions which contains severe conflicts with decent, basic UI-UX design.
Created attachment 92578 [details] How it could be (1) - Darker Theme Something like this darker theme could also be added as one of the default. What do you think? That, coupled with the layout you have for the toolbars, or even removing the formatting toolbar and using the sidebar (as I suggested here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73889), would help LibreOffice truly stand out in UI/UX terms. Why change the icons just a little bit, play with the colours always back and forth just so the change log in UI looks fuller?
Too much white can be overwhelming to the eye anyway.
+1 absolutely agree. Look at Photoshop and many other applications going very dark concerning their UI. And there's a simple reason: it's much easier on the eyes. -> NEW
Caolan McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=68075a61c28a5c72429f78776a822ed45fdcb4a7 Resolves: fdo#72142 darker default workspace color The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Created attachment 98231 [details] SS after fix Thank you Caolan for fixing this, however one small issue remains: As seen on the screenshot, the ruler background has also changed, thus making the rulers unreadable on the margins. It would be better if the rulers section would be a lighter grey, making it more readable. Anyway, thank you very much for the fix! Really appreciated.
Caolan McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=cbb9efa642ec3a7418136547c04eb2455ba1c821 Related: fdo#72142 lighter ruler default color The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Ruler toggles remained the same colour after the latest fix, but I think that's okay. Marking as VERIFIED FIXED. Thank your very much Caolan!