My team just finished a project were we implemented the Ribbon bar using
the DotNetBar Suite: http://www.devcomponents.com/dotnetbar/.
We are currently conducting training sessions and I haven't seen any
major problems besides the file menu. No one wants to click on it.
Hmmm... maybe because all y
I agree with you Katie, with one exception: if the company is a small
software vendor with a strategic partnership with Microsoft, then doing the
whole Office 2007 Ribbon thing may get your program shown off by a very
large distributed Microsoft sales team. If I was deciding based upon
usability an
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The toolbars were an advanced user feature, which
supported very rapid acti
At the moment Vista has a very low adoption rate and a very high "Oh,
my God -- let's go back to Windows!" rate...So, I think that at this
point it makes a lot of sense to stick with the Windows
standards...generally speaking.
However, if you're building an internal app for a group that will be
Hi Jenni,
It is certainly an interesting question. I am using Office 2007, but not
Vista, which is just the way I like it.
The move from [long, textual, multi-level menus with auto-hiding and cryptic
icon-only toolbars] to a [tabbed arrangement of combinations of icons with
text, and one level de
Thanks, Jennifer, and hello, all; I've just joined your list.
I'm wondering if the ribbon is a solution for a large (overly complex) set of
features where the speed of user performance is not a primary design driver?
Also, I don't yet have Vista installed on my computer, so I confess I'm not
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