Since we're piling on... I don't mind the sort of ribbon menu as they've evolved to be at MSFT, but I do prefer pull-down menus with *text* instead of icons. I'm a textual user, I prefer everything as textual as possible. I'd even like a search feature for menus/functions, and in general I'd like search to be as powerful as possible. I'm so text-oriented that I'd rather you add vi keybindings than ribbon menus.
Still, that said, if you organize the implementation cleverly, then you could easily give the user the option of traditional vs. "ribbon" menus. I don't care if you do implement the option for ribbon menus but it strikes me as a good idea to organize the implementation such that you *can* add the option with minimal effort later. Nico --
