On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 22:27 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: > 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.
Agreed. I think you are just saying what I mentioned in a different way. I did not mention the "formatting" toolbar, but the floating toolbars that work similarly to the object bar of old. > 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". I have not looked at MS Office too much, but when you context sensitivity, do you mean in the floating toolbar action or as part of the context menu? > 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 ;-)). Agreed. Although I am intrigued now by what you mentioned as will have to do a little more research into the "ribbon" method. Regards Jonathon -- OOo Tips: http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/tips.rss OOo Knowledgebase: http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au Training4Linux: http://www.training4linux.com Cybersite Consulting: http://www.cybersite.com.au --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
