2009/8/6 NoOp <[email protected]> > On 08/06/2009 07:21 AM, M Henri Day wrote: > > I think most of us can agree that the OOo GUI is getting a bit long in > the > > tooth, but I'm not sure that everybody wants a needed update to tread the > > primorose path taken by Microsoft Office. List members can judge for > > themselvs on the following site (http://preview.tinyurl.com/mobp2y ) > and > > post comments to the Sun developers.... > > > > Henri > > > > The url is: > http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/prototyping_a_new_ui_july > > What a wonderful improvement! Hopefully they will eventually fill the > entire screen with new ribbon buttons so that I no longer have to do any > work. :-) > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3649 > [August 5th, 2009 > OpenOffice users: Just say no to a Microsoft-like Ribbon interface]
At the risk of sounding like I'm getting long in the tooth myself (I am), I agree with NoOp and, it would seem, a lot of other users that the ribbon road is not the path that OOo should take (I can use MS Office 2007 and in fact find it an improvement over 2003, so my opinion is not a result of my having fallen off the learning curve). But I hope list members will take a look at the site (whether they choose to use the link I provided or the longer one provided by NoOp) and send their opinions off to Sun - hopefully before, rather than after, irrevocable decisions are made concerning the GUI. For that matter, my main worry is not so much what will happen to the OOo GUI, but what will happen to OOo itself, now that Sun has been purchased by Oracle.... Henri
