OpenOffice.org Renaissance GUI Prototype

Testdrive of the Java based prototype from Project Renaissance.

Note: This mid-fidelity prototype has no polished UI design! Also the content of the toolbar section is not final nor complete. We just want to test interaction of the a possible UI with normal users. Therefore the prototype provides only limited functionality that allows us to run some tests in real live scenarios like creating a small presentation and doing some formatting.

Please also visit our project homepage: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• OOo
• OpenOffice.org
• OpenOffice
• Renaissance

[hydroxoniumionplus]

it is dead

[MrDanielHen]

Looks very nice!

[Demosai]

Add COLORS please. It looks a prototype old school design.

Like Light Blue or something "BY DEFAULT".

[OfferoC]

@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.

[ajithsreeni]

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.

[calamitatvm]

Qué interfaz más cutre.

[Akpre10tia]

mejor no usen ribbon usen otra cosa esos botones ocupan mucho espacio en la pantalla

[metalmaniac248]

what open office needs is more features, not a new interface

[dexiPL]

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.

[elksalmon84]

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...