We need menu tool bar and the ribbon tool bar both. But we don't need both simultaneously. But there should be some options to activate/deactivate menu toolbar. For that pls check the firefox 3.4 beta version (provide a ctrl key also for that
(F10)). The ribbons can be more stylish with curved as in Office 2007.
If you copy ribbons from MS OFFICE try to base on that first, then make changes. Actual project is difficult to use and not user friendly. Connecting both types of menus makes only confusion. I suggest developers to give the choice to the users if they will want ribbons or regular menus. Additionally they should decide which buttons they want to put on ribbons. It could resolve the problem of being user friendly.
I for one like the layout menu enhancements, and especially appreciate that the new interface keeps the contextual menu on hand. AutoCAD did this as a standard in their 2009 release and also allowed the option to turn off their ribbon. Not aware of what the actual logistics are supposed to be but for the people taking issue with the new release are there any plans to allow users to choose between them?
Please, no MSOffice's hideous ribbon. Arrogantly assumes they know user's workflows. Example: insert footnote. MSOffice Ribbon: "Footnotes = references. Go to references. Then insert footnote." Idiocy! I still want to "insert/footnote!" Let me decide. If insert, call it insert! Example: Working on footnote. Need to copy format from elsewhere. Where's format brush? Not in sight. They put it in home/clipboard! At very least, make fully customizable so user decides what goes where.
Still seems a lot of wasted space for the interface, taking away too much from the item your working on. It always struck me as dumb to not have interfaces change in accordance to the format of what you are working on or viewing it on. Best example is in editing a portrait A4 document on a 16x9 screen where top menus rob the user of clean viewing.
I must admit that I love the concept. You guys have struck a fantastic balance between ease of use and power user. No wait. It enables new users to be power users easily.
The integration and retention of a menu bar is essential to keep hard core retro users on side but also you have made is so that people can discover functions that they could not access before.
BTW, how will bare bone users see this? Is there a low resource roll back function?
I hate it when applications invent their own GUI. Just give me the classic menu's. I'm running Ubuntu and every application has the same consistent look: a title bar on the top, a menu bar beneath the title bar and a toolbar beneath the menu bar. I want to use this in every application. I don't want tabs in my menu bar. It's a menu bar, not a menu and tabs bar.
The classic look is just not useful. Everything is buried in menus. The contextual toolbars that pop into place change the layout/size of the application as I am trying to edit something. It is very annoying. There is too much functionality in OO for just the classic menus.
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philip10khor 8 months ago
it is dead
hydroxoniumionplus 9 months ago
Looks very nice!
MrDanielHen 1 year ago
Add COLORS please. It looks a prototype old school design.
Like Light Blue or something "BY DEFAULT".
Demosai 1 year ago
We need menu tool bar and the ribbon tool bar both. But we don't need both simultaneously. But there should be some options to activate/deactivate menu toolbar. For that pls check the firefox 3.4 beta version (provide a ctrl key also for that
(F10)). The ribbons can be more stylish with curved as in Office 2007.
ajithsreeni 1 year ago
Qué interfaz más cutre.
calamitatvm 1 year ago
mejor no usen ribbon usen otra cosa esos botones ocupan mucho espacio en la pantalla
Akpre10tia 1 year ago
what open office needs is more features, not a new interface
metalmaniac248 1 year ago
If you copy ribbons from MS OFFICE try to base on that first, then make changes. Actual project is difficult to use and not user friendly. Connecting both types of menus makes only confusion. I suggest developers to give the choice to the users if they will want ribbons or regular menus. Additionally they should decide which buttons they want to put on ribbons. It could resolve the problem of being user friendly.
dexiPL 1 year ago
i don't really get it. is that mixedcontrols is what is approved to be future openoffice UI?
it doesn't looks any different from what openoffice has now. just more clicks to switch between usual old single-line panels...
elksalmon84 1 year ago
I for one like the layout menu enhancements, and especially appreciate that the new interface keeps the contextual menu on hand. AutoCAD did this as a standard in their 2009 release and also allowed the option to turn off their ribbon. Not aware of what the actual logistics are supposed to be but for the people taking issue with the new release are there any plans to allow users to choose between them?
xAnacondax 1 year ago
Please, no MSOffice's hideous ribbon. Arrogantly assumes they know user's workflows. Example: insert footnote. MSOffice Ribbon: "Footnotes = references. Go to references. Then insert footnote." Idiocy! I still want to "insert/footnote!" Let me decide. If insert, call it insert! Example: Working on footnote. Need to copy format from elsewhere. Where's format brush? Not in sight. They put it in home/clipboard! At very least, make fully customizable so user decides what goes where.
falvarado00 1 year ago
Still seems a lot of wasted space for the interface, taking away too much from the item your working on. It always struck me as dumb to not have interfaces change in accordance to the format of what you are working on or viewing it on. Best example is in editing a portrait A4 document on a 16x9 screen where top menus rob the user of clean viewing.
frumpyb 1 year ago
I must admit that I love the concept. You guys have struck a fantastic balance between ease of use and power user. No wait. It enables new users to be power users easily.
The integration and retention of a menu bar is essential to keep hard core retro users on side but also you have made is so that people can discover functions that they could not access before.
BTW, how will bare bone users see this? Is there a low resource roll back function?
I wish I could help out in some way.
michaelwheatland 2 years ago
Good job!!! loved it!!! Now the only thing missing is to hide the menu bar until we actually need it.
Zorthgo 2 years ago
I hate it when applications invent their own GUI. Just give me the classic menu's. I'm running Ubuntu and every application has the same consistent look: a title bar on the top, a menu bar beneath the title bar and a toolbar beneath the menu bar. I want to use this in every application. I don't want tabs in my menu bar. It's a menu bar, not a menu and tabs bar.
robbertvdd 2 years ago
@robbertvdd
The classic look is just not useful. Everything is buried in menus. The contextual toolbars that pop into place change the layout/size of the application as I am trying to edit something. It is very annoying. There is too much functionality in OO for just the classic menus.
OfferoC 1 year ago
love it
jazz8450 2 years ago
I'd be more impressed if you guys could turn that into a fully fledged web app. Maybe even a hybrid client (native client).
Just my opinion. :-)
I like the prototype UI though, very user friendly.
LordAlda 2 years ago