Sean White wrote > Just look at what happened to MSOffice after Ribbon. Leaving aside the > arguments of > whether it did indeed change things for their better, it undeniably > changed > them dramatically. This resulted in lots of hate from people that were > force to change their work flow.
That's not the sidebar case: as discussed upper, the idea is provide an (almost) complete UI aside the existing one, potentially avoiding any menu browsing. Potentially. Don't like the sidebar? It's a click away, close it and will disappear as never existed. Don't like classic UI? Close toolbars and use the sidebar. Ribbon affected users workflow because they had no choice: "Take this and shut up" - MS said. We are *not* doing something similar. Sean White wrote > LibreOffice uses it's own internal toolkit with a custom selection of UI > elements thus any > massive UI change would require the writing of new UI elements into the > toolkit and > probably the rewritting of a fair ammount of old ones No more, not in the upcoming future: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/WidgetLayout/FindDialogs Over 84% of current dialogs have been converted to the new .ui format who rely on GTK+3 toolkit. When complete, the plans are (as far as I know): - convert toolkit used by exstensions - get rid of hundreds of .rsc files (a .po-like old format used for translation) - finally port main windows to GTK+3 There isn't an arrival date, but forget LO own toolkit in the future, it will be no more a limitation for a UI change :) The good news is that the sidebar is indeed a dialog docked on the side and already converted to GTK since LO 4.2 A potential developers doesn't need to learn a weird old technology, neither extending it with new elements. A sidebar improvement still require time and hard work, but it's notably simpler now. Another good reason why this is the right way to finally enhance LO visual experience. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/The-Sidebar-Problem-tp4094331p4107104.html Sent from the Design mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
