Lars Nooden wrote:
Mathias Bauer wrote:
... They deserve a better treament
than insinuations that they just would be out for "aping" the r*****.
Unless that is what they are doing. :P
If it looks like duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, ...
-Lars
But what if it sings like a nightingale? We haven't heard it yet, the
prototype was clearly not the finished "voice" or anywhere close, just a
way to get feedback. The main issues seem to be use of screen real
estate (which should be kept to a minimum) and the ability to turn it
off and use the old menu structure easily, and Mathias has clearly been
pushing those issues himself. I think most of us start off with a
serious mistrust for anything that attempts to predict what we want (a
la Clippy and its kin), because it's *so* much easier to do wrong than
right. But even Ribbon has its avid fans (I'm not one of them!), and
anything that reduces the learning curve for newbies, and for
experienced users trying a new or infrequently used capability, can be a
serious advantage for OOo in the market. So I'm willing to wait and see.
Should be a lot of fun trying to write the help and other documentation,
though!
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