Finally OpenOffice is going to get a major User Interface overhaul. Features improvements were impressive in last two big releases – version 2.x and few weeks ago 3.x, but UI mostly stayed horrible as it is since the beginning. Now there is “Project Renaissance” ongoing to adapt UI to 21st century.

So far more than ten proposals were submitted. Some just minor changes, some too difficult to understand in 20 seconds watching the page, some promising. Check out especially Flux UI and Iced Coffee.