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We've come a long way... Check out this screenshot of LibreOffice 3.4 from 2011, compared with how it looks today (with the shiny NotebookBar user interface)! #ThrowbackThursday
@libreoffice I really love LibreOffice and hate to say it, but on my fresh install of Fedora the out of the box experience doesn't look great 
. It's the same as 2011 but now with blurry monochrome icons.
@tomjwatson Go to Tools > Options > View to choose SVG icons (should be better), and then View > User Interface to change to the tabbed version!
@libreoffice Thanks - that looks much better! Why wouldn't svg icons be default in this day and age, though? Also if I manually select SVG icons then the icons no longer follow dark/light mode system preference.
@libreoffice Have you heard whether the design team will promote the tab interface as default anytime soon?
@libreoffice @tomjwatson SVG icons definitely looks better. Why is that not the default? The defaults looked pretty bad on my Fedora.
The tabbed interface though, ouch, somewhat unpleasant to use. Please don't remove the standard menus.
@loke @tomjwatson Well, you need to ask Fedora about their choice of default icons 
@libreoffice @tomjwatson That's fair. But is there any point in even support non-SVG anymore? (that is to say, is there any case where non-SVG icons have an advantage? Performace perhaps?)
@loke @tomjwatson Check on https://bugs.documentfoundation.org for details, but there could be cases where non-SVG makes sense (especially on older operating systems) and we try to avoid removing things that some people are still using. Maybe one day it'll go, but only when we're sure that everyone can use SVG with no issues!
@libreoffice @tomjwatson Thank you for the clarification. I agree with what you say, especially since I in the same thread are asking you not to remove the traditional menus.