Open Source software doesn’t lack popularity because of “ lack of themes or eye-candy” It lacks marketing. In essence, who cares what your office suite looks like?

The vast majority of MS Office users, are working in productive environments, such as offices. I can guarantee you that the vast majority of MS Office users, will not care a bit about skins. So I say, OOo should not focus on eye-candy at all, but rather focus on usability in terms of production. I couldn’t care less what an application looks like, if it’s going to let me actually make something cool, or better yet something worth lots of money. The last thing a productive user wants, is for his work to get lost from the “ pretty” application crashing. When it comes to a productivity suite, it is best to leave the majority of the memory use of these types of applications, to the actual productivity. It is a productivity suite after all.”Īre that many people really using Open Office for Windows? Or Gimp for that matter? People use them on Linux, because most every modern distro has these installed, by default. Open Office is bloated enough without needing to add extra, non-functional code.Īnd like Kaj Kandler said, “ Not sure if OOo needs themes.

Open office dark theme