To ALL: If you are a bonafide OOo user, who cares?
CPHennessy wrote:
On Mon January 30 2006 14:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All
I'm sure most of you know that Microsoft is planning to integrate ribbons
into its next package; MS Office 12 (currently in beta 1 testing phase).
One of the developers, Jensen Harris, maintains a blog
(http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/category/10923.aspx) that discusses
this "new" development (basically it looks like they took what OOo and open
source allow - customization - and tried to go one up). There is also a
nice "short" 70-slide presentation outlining this at
http://www.baychi.org/podcast/20051213/baychi-20051213-20.pdf.
Ribbons, for those who don't know, are "adaptive toolbars" ie. depending on
where you click the toolbars change and the result is a different toolbar
of icons that shows what possible options you can now follow e.g. if you
click in a cell then the toolbars change and the toolbar displayed now has
macros and icons for inserting a row, column, deleting a row, column,
inserting a cell, deleting a cell, etc.
So, the obvious question is; is this functionality planned as an option for
a release of OOo down the line (obviously after MS Office 12 is released -
a case of "we'll cross that bridge when we get there") or has this question
been previously asked (I searched but I could not find anything) and, if
so, where?
Hi James,
I think that you will find that the OOo developers have enough features that
they wish to add which are much more interesting that simply copying what
MSOffice does.
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