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Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by JustSomeNobody on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:15AM (#8966957)
I have to use Office at work. I have not liked the ribbon since it came out. It's not that I don't like new ideas. I am a SW dev and I embrace new. I change jobs every 6 mos just so I don't have to deal with old code, that's how much I like new things. The ribbon sucks. It mind numbingly sucks.

Note: Some of this was an exaggeration to drive home the point of how bad the ribbon interface sucks.

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Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by andybak on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:33AM (#8967111)
Is it really worse than toolbar hell?

http://www.mlponies.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05...

Icons without text labels work ONLY for frequently performed tasks with an obvious visual representation.

For everything else text and icons is probably optimal.

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Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by scholia on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:50AM (#8967252)
Do you also struggle with tabbed web pages and toolbars? If you can't use either of those, then I agree, you will have problems with the ribbon.

If you can use both of those -- and I'm certain you can -- then I don't see why something that simply combines tabs and toolbar icons is such problem.

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