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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."

2 of 617 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How about some nice menus instead? by k3!to · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "or a brain dead MS hater" Erm... What about disliking unfair practices and monopolistic tendencies makes you "braindead" exactly. I am no MS fan, and I can tell a good UI when I see one. Let MS keep the ribbon, and OOo can ride the Status Quo. The ribbon looks nice but does nothing for productivity.

  2. Re:Oh, cool... by gbarules2999 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

    Updated that for you.