The sales success of Microsoft Office and Office 365 suggest that "(almost) everyone" is inaccurate.
It may be that those who don't like anything about Office since 2003 or 2007 switch to an OpenOffice version, or the switch is for other reasons entirely (such as expense). As usual when changes like this occur, just as for Windows 10 versus Windows 8, there is tuning and tweaking but the main idea survives. I find that I have adjusted just fine to "the ribbon" in all its form on current Windows systems. I have found the Windows 8.1 Start Page (and my ability to manage and organize what is on it) so appealing that I set Windows 10 to use it instead of the W10 Start Button, really not a return to the Windows 7 one (although I am certain Microsoft is not done perfecting the new Start Button). So I happily train myself to the OpenOffice GUI and the Microsoft Office GUI and have no problem with either of them. There are hard-to-find items either way and everyone's Help system is frustrating [;<). - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Fernando Cassia [mailto:fcas...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 08:30 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; Dennis Hamilton Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org > wrote: > I resonate with these remarks (two extracts below). I particularly want > to acknowledge all of the work that Kay Schenk and several others have put > into making AOO more approachable by new developers. Ideed, "Innovation" for change's sake leads to Microsoft's "Ribbon" UI that (almost) everyone hated. In other words, when it comes to GUI design, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it". just my $0.02 FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
