On 31/01/2006, at 9:55 AM, 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.
The funny thing here is that this so called "Ribbon" was what we
called the Object
Toolbar in OpenOffice.org 1.x series. When you clicked on a different
object eg
cell, shape, word, table etc, the toolbar would change. However,
people wanted
the interface to be more like MS Office, so they changed it to have
the floating
toolbars related to object choice instead now.
Regards
Jonathon
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