LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever

Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by macspoofing on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:26AM (#8967055)

>Its such a great concept that using LO is like stepping back into the Office 97 days.

Maybe there's a reason why ribbon-style components haven't really taken off outside of core Microsoft products. I don't think the ribbon is actually that great-looking and I don't think it's that functional.

I'm also a fan of a LO forging it's own identity. For far to long Open Office strove to mimic MS Office in look-and-feel.

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Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by MichaelGG on Thursday January 29, 2015 @01:59PM (#8968133)

The Ribbon is amazing when you have lots and lots of commands, many which aren't always commonly used. Few programs approach the sheer number of commands. IIRC, in Office 2007 it was like 1300?

One of the main designers ran a blog explaining the design process. Even if you hate the ribbon, the explanation of how they came to it (heavily driven by telemetry, eye tracking studies, etc) is pretty cool. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2008/03/12/the-story...

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Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by robwilliams on Thursday January 29, 2015 @04:17PM (#8968889)

The video is great: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX08/UX09

I couldn't go back to taskbars and task panes after watching that.

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Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by jamesmishra on Thursday January 29, 2015 @02:27PM (#8968285)

Autodesk Inventor uses the Ribbon, and it makes doing 3D CAD extraordinarily intuitive.

I think the sibling comment is right---the ribbon makes a lot of sense when you have tons and tons of commands.

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