On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 22:05 -0400, Wayne Borean wrote: > Ah, but the Ribbon menu is important. It's another evolutionary option for > the interface. Whether you like it or not is to a certain extent a matter of > taste. Quite frankly I hated using a GUI for a long time. It slowed me down > too much. It still does slow me down in some ways, a command line is more > efficient IF YOU KNOW THE SYSTEM WELL. > > If you don't, a GUI is easier. > > And some of it is simply a matter of taste. If you grew up with curry on > your food, it won't taste right without it. > > Wayne > > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Bruce Carlson > <br...@grahamgroup.com.au>wrote: > > > Yes I can understand how you, thinking that you are younger, feeling like > > you are mature, and all the time it is your inexperience that is restricting > > you to see only what is put in front of you and you are unable to use logic > > to put together all that surrounds you so therefore you, as are many other Y > > generationalists, (but not all), willing to accept only what you are told > > and unable to think outside the square you are ordered to live in. > > To be honest with us and with yourself, if the reason you will not use LO > > is because you will only use an office suite if has ribbon button menus than > > you are the exact petty minded person that Microsoft relies on for it's > > future profits. > > > > > > Bruce Carlson > > an X gernerationalist. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Csenger Attila Szabó [mailto:csenge...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, 13 April 2011 6:06 PM > > To: users@libreoffice.org > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] question > > > > OK, in my case, the only reason why I DON'T use LO is the lack of ribbon. > > I accept that not everyone likes that, that's why I wrote the idea of an > > extensions or plugin. So those who like the ribbon would be able to use it. > > @Bruce: I have to disagree with you, I find the ribbon much faster and > > easier to use. And I'm not the only one, many of the people around, > > especially the younger ones find much more useful the ribbon than the > > dropdown menus. > > I know that those who get used to the menu-style won't like any other > > solution, but you are not the only ones. > > So what about the plugin/extension thing? > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting > > guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > > deleted > > >
Wayne I remember using punch cards for programming so anything is better than that. I like the ribbon myself but can use any GUI interface for an application. If a ribbon is desired by a significant number users I would think we need to consider how to add it, unless M$ has a patent on it. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
