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LibreOffice Will Have New 'MUFFIN' UI (documentfoundation.org)

Posted by msmash on from the new-updates dept.

New submitter iampiti writes: The Document Foundation has announced a new user interface concept for LibreOffice. Users will be able to choose from several toolbar configurations including the "Notebook bar" which is similar to Microsoft Office's ribbon. According to TDF, "The MUFFIN (My User Friendly -- Flexible Interface) represents a new approach to UI design, based on the respect of user needs rather than on the imposition of a single UI to all users"

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  1. Re:Dear Developers... by hackel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dear Developers: Do whatever the fuck you want with your own time. Don't worry about bugs and features unless they are important to YOU. Do what you love—that's what developing open source software is all about. Until the whiners get off their ass and pay you to work on their token issue, ignore them. Most importantly: THANK YOU!

  2. Yay sidebar! by kaka.mala.vachva · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wish more applications would use a sidebar - with monitors spreading horizontally for video display reasons, there is an awful lot of whitespace that isn't used by most word documents, webpages etc. Vertical space is getting to be a premium now.

  3. I like what they're proposing by iampiti · · Score: 4, Informative
    Submitter here. What they're doing is just giving the users some predefined options for configurations of the toolbar or something with equivalent functionality.
    The proposed options are:
    • Classic toolbar
    • Simplified toolbar (just the most common options
    • Sidebar
    • Notebook bar /aka the Ribbon clone

    I find great that, differently to current trends in UI design, they're giving the users options. Everyone can choose whatever they like best.
    Yeah, it may be confusing to some users that there're several options (although I guess that that kind of users will probably never even stumble upon the option to change the default), it does add a bit of extra code (but not much, since it's just a bit of UI code that ends up calling the same logic code) but I think it's positive overall.
    This also touches me personally since I don't like some current trends in UI design (e.g. Win 10's mobile UI elements for every form factor, very limited theming, latest Gnome ...) and usually they give you no choice.

  4. Re:Finally! by Nutria · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can never find things in Outlook, Word or Excel 2010. The old style drop-down menus make it much easier to find what I want.

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  5. Re:Change is bad by cayenne8 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I *STILL* fucking hate the "ribbon" interface....I just can't find shit nearly as easy as I used to in MS Office products.

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  6. Re:My girlfriend's muffin... by behrooz0az · · Score: 4, Funny

    You really shouldn't talk to the president that way, it's quite inappropriate.

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