Jonathon Coombes wrote: > 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.
You seem to misinterpret the changes in the OOo2.0 toolbars. The object toolbars are still present (and they still replace each other when the selection changes), but now we have the additional "formatting" toolbar that does no longer become exchanged by an object bar but always is visible too. The reason for this change was that too many people failed to find this toolbar once it got exchanged (e.g. when the cursor was moved to a table). It has a drawback though because now you have three toolbars when an object is selected and only two when none is selected (and you are editing pure text). The object bars now are floating toolbars by default, you can change this easily by moving them to the window edge you like. This is still very different to MS Office, their implementation of context sensitivity is much more limited than ours, but this will change with "ribbon". The "ribbon" UI is not the same as our object toolbars, it's comparable but goes even beyond it and much more consequently reduces the shown elements. I don't think that implementing something like this for Ooo would be impossible, not even very hard, but I don't see a reason to do so ATM, there are more important things to do (as kindly enough was already mentioned here ;-)). Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
