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Preview the Office 2007 Ribbon-Like UI Floated For OpenOffice.Org

Posted by timothy on from the trial-balloon-target-practice dept.

recoiledsnake writes "OpenOffice.org has prototyped a new UI that radically changes the current OO.o interface into something very similar to the new ribbon style menus that Office 2007 introduced and which have been extensively used throughout Windows 7. The blog shows a screenshot of the prototype in Impress (the equivalent of PowerPoint), but this UI is proposed to be used across all OO.o applications. Some commenters on the Sun blog are not happy about OO.o blindly aping Office 2007, and feel that the ribbon UI may be out of place in non-Windows operating systems."

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  1. Oh, cool... by Aphoxema · · Score: 5, Funny

    I like the ribbon, it's helped me convince people to use Open Office.

    Wait, what? Ah, shit...

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  2. makes my eyeball fall out of my eyesocket by Phantom+of+the+Opera · · Score: 4, Funny

    OO.o

  3. Re:How about some nice menus instead? by amorsen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft probably did quite a bit of usability testing before launching Clippy...

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  4. Re:How about some nice menus instead? by Theolojin · · Score: 2, Funny

    What mistake? The ribbon is fine, it takes 5 mins to pick up unless you have a learning disability or a brain dead MS hater.

    Does that five minutes start before or after the half hour it takes to figure out how to open a stupid file?

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  5. Re:How about some nice menus instead? by Sexy+Commando · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's like the ending of 1984 (I kind of like ribbon, too).