Hi Ralf, I agree with you: Microsoft is very proud of Ribbon Bar (that's why it has been introduced in the File Explorer of Windows 10), but the gap for users is very important. I remember the arrival of Office 2007, many people where puzzled, but once you accustomed, you are very productive. I agree also with the fact that companies should take care of this UI feature, it can be a big mess (as far as I know, the Ribbon was tested during 2 years by Microsoft Labs before being shipped).
I never heard about RWT but I'll have a look, thanks. By the way, does anyone interested in this project ? Laurent Le dim. 24 févr. 2019 à 23:16, Ralf Heydenreich <rheyd...@justmail.de> a écrit : > Am 24.02.2019 um 17:29 schrieb Laurent Caron: > > Hi, > > Well if my level of Wim's language is good enough, a sentence with the > word "batmobile" means "Green light" 😉 > > As far as I remember, the look of Hexapixel's ribbon was really close to > the "office 2007" look... Nowadays, Word's ribbon is more flat, without > gradient... > So my question is : should we start from the original ribbon by Emi, > should we build a new project from scratch or should we migrate project > like FXRibbon ([1]) from JavaFX to SWT ? > > I'm interested by this widget, who else ? > > Laurent > > [1] https://www.pixelduke.com/fxribbon/ > > > Hi Laurent, > > a few months ago I've also player around with the Hexapixel Ribbon > library, but I've decided to not use it. I think, the concept of a "ribbon > bar" is specific for Microsoft applications, especially for Windows users. > MaOS and Linux users have other UI concepts. > > Nonetheless, I think we can work on such a ribbon widget for SWT, since a > lot of applications are running under Windows (in my experience). Therefore > it's good to have a well known concept of a UI. > > Btw, there's also a "Ribbon Widget Toolkit" ( > https://code.google.com/archive/p/rwt/), but it is completely in Chinese > language and I haven't work with it. > Ralf > > > > > Le dim. 24 févr. 2019 à 11:57, Wim Jongman <wim.jong...@remainsoftware.com> > a écrit : > >> IIRC someone said there is no patent issue anymore. >> >> To the batmobile, let's go. >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* nebula-dev-boun...@eclipse.org <nebula-dev-boun...@eclipse.org> >> on behalf of Christian Pontesegger <christian.ponteseg...@web.de> >> *Sent:* Sunday, February 24, 2019 8:59:34 AM >> *To:* Nebula Dev >> *Subject:* Re: [nebula-dev] Question about "Ribbon" >> >> Interesting IP situation. Do you now, does Eclipse try to sort out such >> issues, eg by contacting Microsoft to find an alternate way of >> licensing? >> >> Christian >> >> > _______________________________________________ > nebula-dev mailing list > nebula-dev@eclipse.org > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe > from this list, visit > https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev
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