It would appear that on Sep 15, The Beaver did say: > Nobody with a brain is actually going to stop using OOo just because it has a > ribbon. An intuitive interface is a plus and if the ribbon can be made to > work instead of just hide everything like MS does, then it is a good thing. > Quit bitchin' and start helping! It has been noted that some people do not > like the ribbon mostly because they view it as copying MS. Eventually, when > more features are added, the ribbons will be full and will not look like > wasted real estate. Floyd
That might depend... While I'd like to think they aren't actually going to copy MS, in order to explain my feelings, I too am going to point at something MS did to their office product some time ago. Do you remember when they introduced that "paperclip". At the time I had MS Office on my assigned PC at work. All I wanted was a way to tell it to stay hid unless I ask for help. But to keep it from waving at me whenever it wanted to suggest something, I wound up disabling so much of the help system that the F1 key became useless... (that was when I first looked into Star Office, which soon led me to Open Office... And I've been choosing it ever since.) If they provide a way for an OOo user who feels that some or all of the old UI was more intuitive than the new one, to selectively turn off the new features and restore the old appearance and behavior, then your probably right about that "Nobody with a brain" bit... But if they just cram something down their existing user bases throats. Especially if it effectively says: "We have decided that this is more intuitive than the what your already used to, so like it or not, you will have to 'just get used to it'..." Then, even if they "did" actually make it more intuitive, at least SOME of us, even some of the ones with brains, will look elsewhere. Personally I don't care what they do to the "out of the box" default UI. Just as long as they keep the changes a user configurable choice. Then, I'll keep choosing to use it. -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<[email protected]>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
