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Anikom15

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Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

I was thinking about GUIs. One thing that interested me was MS Office's Ribbon UI. If you haven't used it, well, it's good. I was wondering about integrating it into some of our applications. I've also been trying to come up with more efficient ways of structuring GUIs, just some thoughts.

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flamelab

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Re: Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

Ribbon is patented ...

skottish

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Re: Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

Ribbon is patented ...

So is everything else in computing. So, people should just continue on with whatever they need to do.

PJ

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Re: Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

I think it is a mess, it takes more time to actually find something with the ribbon interface and what it did with a classic menu bar/tool bar interface, at least it does for me. I have been using MS Office 2007 at my work for over a year now. Well, a good UI design that comes to my mind is Inkscape.

csstaub

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Re: Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

I agree, I don't like Ribbon either - altough maybe that's just because I'm not used to it.

linkmaster03

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Re: Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

I don't like ribbon either. It takes up screen real estate and is generally confusing. There is nothing wrong with the standard File/Edit/View/Tools/Help toolbar.

tlvb

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Re: Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

How about a vertical menu/toolbar setup, seeing as most new screens are widescreen, which does not add anything to document editing.

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Peasantoid

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Re: Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

No no, you're all wrong. Keyboard shortcuts are best.

zowki

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Re: Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

No need for gooeys. Just fire up good ol' urxvt.

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scj

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-09-23

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Re: Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

What was the question again?

Berticus

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Re: Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

I think it is a mess, it takes more time to actually find something with the ribbon interface and what it did with a classic menu bar/tool bar interface, at least it does for me...Well, a good UI design that comes to my mind is Inkscape.

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I took out the part about using MS Office 2007 for a year because I haven't. I have both 2003 and 2007 installed. I haven't gotten around to it yet, but 2003 will handle the office documents, and 2007 will handle the office open xml files.

moljac024

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Registered: 2008-01-29

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Re: Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

I think it is a mess, it takes more time to actually find something with the ribbon interface and what it did with a classic menu bar/tool bar interface, at least it does for me...Well, a good UI design that comes to my mind is Inkscape.

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I took out the part about using MS Office 2007 for a year because I haven't. I have both 2003 and 2007 installed. I haven't gotten around to it yet, but 2003 will handle the office documents, and 2007 will handle the office open xml files.

Office 2003 can handle the newer formats with an addon.

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Anikom15

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Registered: 2009-04-30

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Re: Let's brainstorm! (GUIs)

How about a vertical menu/toolbar setup, seeing as most new screens are widescreen, which does not add anything to document editing.

THIS. One of the reasons I like Gimp's interface. I like the ribbon. It's generally faster.

Though I wish everything was like Vim.

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