On 2013-04-05 16:49, Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
As I said this is my personal opinion so I migth be wrong, but I haven´t received any useful opinion (besides M$ patent) of why not doing such a thing just a few user complaining they will affect some how what they feel is comfortable. Regarding the patent believe me that if they patent 0s and 1s then we are definitively lost.:)
Several people have responded that ribbon menus have limited use to them, to say the least. I don't think that is a useless opinion.
As someone who spends most of his working hours in Microsoft's ribbon menus, allow me to add to the chorus that ribbon menus tend to be spiteful and useless. And no, they don't really grow on you. I have no idea what flavour of LSD Microsoft's usability experts have been consuming, but I hope it is widely available so that if I ever contract a terminal disease I'd like to spend my final hours tripping on that stuff.
I'd much rather have people spend time on a concurrent user web front-end. Or a curses front-end to LyX. Either of these two are more likely to serve users well than the bloody ribbon menus.
Regards, Walter
