A concept UI capable of adapting to your personal habits

Dec 21, 2016 22:00 GMT  ·  By

Immediately after informing Softpedia today, December 21, 2016, about the launch of a new LibreOffice Extension & Templates website, The Document Foundation company announced MUFFIN, a new tasty user interface concept for LibreOffice 5.3 onwards.

The new MUFFIN (My User Friendly & Flexible INterface) UI focuses on three main areas suggested by those who were able to test drive it during the development stages of the upcoming LibreOffice 5.3 open-source and cross-platform office suite, due for release at the end of January 2017.

It appears to have been in development for quite some time now and its new design capabilities promise to offer something for everyone. First off, it's described as a "personal" UI with complex options capable of adapting to your habits when using the LibreOffice office suite for editing various documents.

"The MUFFIN concept is the combination of different UI elements, which are going to be available starting from LibreOffice 5.3 either as a standard or experimental feature," revealed Italo Vignoli for Softpedia. "Each UI layout has been thought to serve a different cluster of LibreOffice users."

MUFFIN is as user-friendly as possible, not to mention flexible

MUFFIN can also be easily described as the user-friendly UI all LibreOffice users requested for so long. It promises to be as user-friendly as a UI can be while offering a modular design that lets users set their own level of user friendliness, which takes us to the last area, flexibility.

Flexibility appears to be the strongest point of LibreOffice's upcoming MUFFIN user interface, allowing users to have a different UI when deploying the office suite on a laptop or desktop computer. The UIs supported include the default UI with toolbars, the Single Toolbar UI, the Sidebar UI with a Single Toolbar, and a new Notebook Bar UI.

MUFFIN will be available starting with LibreOffice 5.3 and can be highly tweaked to fit your needs. If you can't wait until the official launch of LibreOffice 5.3 in January, you can test drive the MUFFIN UI right now by downloading the binaries for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems from our website.

LibreOffice Writer with Sidebar
LibreOffice Writer with Sidebar

MUFFIN on LibreOffice 5.3 (4 Images)

LibreOffice Writer with Notebook Bar
LibreOffice Writer with SidebarLibreOffice Writer with Single ToolbarMUFFIN
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