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
Thanks for the alert Henri. Obliged.
I've left my comments on the blog page - and it seems that I am weighing
in with many other commentators:
1. Use resources (scarce everywhere) to make the entire suite as
bug-free as possible: i.e. get it to really work before wasting (again,
scarce!) resources on pretty-printing the UI, especially if this
pretty-printing comes at the risk of potential legal action and the
waste of screen real estate.
2. I neither find this so-called "ribbon"-look attractive nor
ergonomic/ intuitive. Why do the icons need to be so BIG for relatively
minor functions/ operations? Rather enable a better system to dock
toolbars into and make greater use of the side-frame, for example.
At the very least, if the developers (Oracle/ whomever) are going to
push this, please allow the long-term user and supporter of OOo to
retain the plain, but eminently more functional and intuitive UI. I am
not using OOo because I want pretty UIs; I use it because it does what I
want it to do in a reliable way, which suggests to me that it is good
code. Additionally, it is Open Source which I ethically endorse, and
poses a viable and functional alternative to the Microsoft hegemony,
which I support.
If the OOo UI developers feel so strongly about an update on its
appearance, provide it as an optional "skin", in which standardise the
controls or symlink them or whatever magic you amazing coders can weave,
but it ain't broke so please don't "fix" it!
Pretty please with a cherry on top?!
AG
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