[ui-dev] MS Office 12 User Interface

[Jörg Wartenberg]

Hello, I found this interview about the upcoming  MS Office 12 user interface, which I hope is interresting for you too: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/sep05/09-13OfficeUI.mspx IMHO there are many good ideas in this user interface, but it sounds like all other Windows Vista applications will stay with the old user interface with menus and toolbars. Which means that OOo will still look native on Windows Vista with classic menus and toolbars. Some interessting details, that IMHO shoud be considered fo OOo 3.0: -Mouse over a 'toolbar' button shows a preview at the current cursor position -The view and zoom control in the status bar looks looks better, than the zoom feature described in the OOo Zooming specification. (I know from watching my colleagues, which use StarOffice, that they always change the zoom factor via the view menu, because they don't expect any functionality in the status bar.) -The word count in the status bar Regards Jörg Wartenberg