Re: use ribbon or something ribbon-like to make complexity easier to deal with

Posted Aug 19, 2015 2:31 UTC (Wed) by ldo (guest, #40946)
In reply to: Doing better than Apache, but is that saying much? by louie
Parent article: Schaller: An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team

The trouble with the Microsoft Office Ribbon is that its design comes from a time before modern wide-screen monitors became popular.

These monitors have a lot more available space horizontally than vertically. Yet the Ribbon takes up precious vertical space.

Compare the Sidebar in LibreOffice, which is positioned beside the document, instead of above or below it: it gives room for the view of the document to take up more of the height of the screen, corresponding more naturally to the portrait orientation of normal printed pages. Which evolved over centuries to maximize readability, after all.

So no, we don’t want to copy the Ribbon in a modern UI.