Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years
by ghaff on Friday July 10, 2020 @08:41AM
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I'm neither in SV nor a webdev. I just remember how many ordinary users hated the ribbon when it first came out. Presumably they adapted over time; I can't really speak to whether Microsoft would have been better evolving the existing menu system. Personally, I could take it or leave it--and at least intellectually the arguments for the ribbon made sense to me.
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Ordinary users hate change. They always do, regardless of how successful (or not) the changes are later judged to be.
This doesn't argue against change so much as argue that the costs need to be worth the disruption - you don't move houses over a carpet stain, and you don't rebuild your UI lightly, either.