@Mathias My dislike for Ribbon is not just because is a MS product... If i was just a MS hater i would use a Mac... while i prefer Windows to MacOS.
Regarding the Ribbon i had chance to try it on Office 2007 and i can tell that it really sucks... it's context sensitivity is a pain in the ass... a computer will never exactly anticipate what i need, it will only mess up things to piss me off. The icon size is a ridiculous example of bad use of screen space just to please aestetichs that will not help you at all when you use the software. And i could go on and on to enumerate all the drawbacks towards the old MS GUI. Now Renaissance, which despite what all you Renaissance guys are keep telling us, is just a Ribbonized-OOo-GUI... you have been inspired by it but you still deny it saying that similarities are coincidence... sorry, i don't believe that. So it seems funny to me to see that you say “no, it's not a Ribbon” and then you defend Ribbon assuming that we hate it just because it's MS.... as i told before i hated the ribbon after using it and after hearing a lot of negative comments of all my MS Office users friends who had to use Office 2007 with it's illogical new GUI... i hate Ribbon because i used it, i hate the Renaissance prototype because i tested it (and sent a completely negative survey) now i have questions for you, Mathias: do you think the Ribbon is a good interface? do you think it really helped productivity of MS Office users? If it is that good why so many MS Office 2007 users would like to downgrade to the old GUI? why people is offering a kind of plugin to recreate MS old GUI to replace the Ribbon? Why you did not realize that Renaissance would face the same negative response of Ribbon? The fact is: leave us the old GUI (as an option or an extension), then do whatever you want with the Renaissance... i would never use it because i don't need it and despite your good intention it will not help my work but only disturb it. If i would be forced to use OOo Renaissance i will consider switching to a new software... AbiWord is not that bad. Sorry, but petition goes on: 200 signatures!!! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Petition-against-OOo-Renaissance-tp25228803p25255786.html Sent from the openoffice - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
