Star OpenOffice.org Demonstrates First New UI Prototypes
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Aug 2009 13:18 UTC
Features, Office 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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Like it, but...
by J.R. on Thu 6th Aug 2009 14:31 UTC
J.R.
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2007-07-25

I actually like it, but why do they have to make the buttons so huge? Almost no room left for the actual document.

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RE: Like it, but...
by siride on Thu 6th Aug 2009 14:38 in reply to "Like it, but..."
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2006-01-02

It's GTK+ or inspired by that...so the buttons and other UI elements must take up as much space as possible.

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RE: Like it, but...
by qroon on Thu 6th Aug 2009 17:56 in reply to "Like it, but..."
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2005-10-21

At first glance, I thought they had a calculator on the interface ;) The buttons look like calculator buttons on Vista.

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