Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Aug 2009 13:18 UTC
The OpenOffice.org team has been experimenting with a new user interface for the suite of programs, and they've presented the first rough prototype of this new interface, more specifically for Impress. The general gist? It's Microsoft Office 2007's ribbon interface.
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Member since:2006-10-31
Looks like a ripoff of Coldfusion Studio 5:
http://gemsres.com/photos/story/res/42061/fig3.jpg
Member since:2006-11-08
Blimey that takes me back. I still use Homesite+ on an almost-daily basis (IMO there's not a better text editor on Windows) but with most of the interface clutter switched off.
We've just switched to Office 2007 and all I can say is I'm glad I know the keyboard shortcuts.
Member since:2009-04-24
bluefish editor
Oh, yeah! Surely, that's where Microsoft got the idea. They didn't spend millions of dollars on R&D, but instead they just copied this:
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/screenshots/python_fref.png
Can you seriously believe that? I can't.
Besides, that tabbed toolbar is not ribbon, and tabbed toolbar has been around for ages - in Delphi, for example.
Member since:2005-11-10
And those screenshots still have a traditional menu--with hundreds of commands in them. We can keep traversing back in time as to who invented tabbed commands, but the fact is that these are not the same thing as the ribbon. The ribbon outright replaces menus entirely, and that's not an easy task with an app like Word that has 1'500 commands.
Member since:2005-07-06
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2005-11-05
If your saying that they are copying the "ribbon" then take a look at the bluefish editor tools interface...keep in mind that their interface pre-dated MSO '07
Kind of turns your argument on its head :-D