Cor Nouws wrote: > Hi Lars, > > Lars Nooden wrote (4-9-2009 14:52) >> >> It is even more so to pretend that calling "the ribbon" by another name >> will make everything ok. > > If you mean this text by Matthias: > > Mathias Bauer wrote (3-9-2009 10:34) >> Dotan Cohen wrote: >> >>> What exactly are the arguments against the Microsoft Ribbon? If we >>> know what the currently-perceived negative connotations of the Ribbon >>> design are, then the OOo Ribbon could be engineered to avoid those >>> pitfalls. >> >> I think that this is more or less what I am trying to tell also. But to >> avoid the Pavlovian response that the word "ribbon" seems to create, I >> would like to use a different wording: >> >> How can we create a context sensitive user interface that does not have >> what people dislike in the ribbon? > > ... then you really misunderstand him. > It is about not using "ribbon", in order to be able to look at and talk > about facts, before people get blinded by a word alone, which would make > it very hard to come to any logic conclusion (regardless in which > direction that might be).
Thanks, finally someone understood what I meant. Your words explain it even better than mine. If people dislike what they see coming (or think what will coming) with our prototype, I would like to hear what exactly they dislike - and I'm sure the UX team will like to hear that even more! For exactly this reason a lot of possible ways to collect feedback exist. But again: just saying "it sucks" or "it's bad because it looks like the r*****" is not sufficient to make a point. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[email protected]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
