Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Posted Aug 18, 2015 7:00 UTC (Tue) by MKesper (subscriber, #38539)
In reply to: Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much? by pheldens
Parent article: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

I'd suspect that was true once but not anymore.

At work I have to use MS Office 2010. Every time I use my private LO I wonder how old the interface feels.
As virtually all business users will have converted to ribbon interface by now, your only chance of migration will be offering something similar.

Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Posted Aug 19, 2015 4:18 UTC (Wed) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link] (4 responses)

Good for you. Figure out how to get that Ribbon to look the way YOU want yet?

Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Posted Aug 19, 2015 7:55 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link] (3 responses)

He's not the exception. Ribbon interface works well for at least millions of MS Office users. IMO you're in a bubble.

Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Posted Aug 20, 2015 16:01 UTC (Thu) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link] (2 responses)

Perhaps, but on the other hand my experience that just brief show of Microsoft Office ribbon makes all previous users of Office (either OOo or MSO before 2005) asking me for some alternative. So far the Ribbon turned to me to be the best advertising for the LibreOffice.

Just saying.

Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Posted Aug 21, 2015 0:05 UTC (Fri) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link] (1 responses)

This isn't necessarily a useful piece of information regarding how well the interface works. There are always hold-outs whenever an interface changes, and the more radical the change the more of them there will be. That resistance speaks more to the immediate cost of learning the new interface than it does to its long-term value.

Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much?

Posted Aug 21, 2015 9:43 UTC (Fri) by jonnor (guest, #76768) [Link]

And once people have invested and become accustomed to 'the new interface' (ribbon) then going back is a change which requires similar immediate costs.