OpenOffice, the unabashed open source rip off of Microsoft Office, has decided to also rip off the Ribbon interface that was introduced in Office 2007.
While this shows little to no ingenuity on the part of the OpenOffice developers, it does make the transition between Office and OpenOffice a lot more seamless. Ultimately, its a good thing for people who use OpenOffice, both willingly or forced.
Naturally, because the freetards put a lot of effort into ridiculing the Ribbon, they were even angrier when it caught on and people actually liked it. Their last stand has been to set up a petition to have the Ribbon stricken from new OpenOffice releases.
Freetards have become new-age Luddites, attempting to smash the mechanisms of progress with petitions and forum feedback. Then, in the same breath, they exalt the OpenOffice mouse as a marvel of engineering.
Comments
Ahh yes. The mouse that looks like it was designed for mice to have multiplayer DDR games on. Because somehow, having 90 obscure bindable function triggers is more useable than a menu that tries to present the most information graphically while taking up as little space as possible.
Umm… They are not copying the UI, they are making a version of their own. STFW!
(If you disagree with me, that’s fine, I don’t care)
http://cybernetnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/openoffice-ribbon-1.jpg
The ribbon is an exact clone of the Office ribbon (with uglier skins). Right down to the “quick access” toolbar hovering below the ribbon.
Also, what does “STFW” mean?
Kapitan ReaktOS is clearly a member of the master race. I’m assuming that he’s attempting to refer to Stabsfeldwebel (essentially, Warrant Officer).
Iehter aRT, Oooh yz ildelxis.
(Like my dyslexic brother. Except that I admire my dyslexic brother.)
Ima gonna vote this one down, because if ReaktosGUI gets sucked in, then it’s either a deadly whirlpool or else a benign but ultimately weedy shot across the bows.
Right, Reactosguy.
When Seven’s taskbar looks vaguely like KDE’s taskbar, which in turn looks a lot like Vista’s taskbar, while all the while, the taskbar has been a core component of the Explorer’s shell’s UI for the past 15 years, it’s not only copying, it’s worse, it’s THEFT!
But when there’s blatant copying, as is the case with the Ribbon, it’s okay, because they’re just making their own version? Double standard much?
Lol at the freetards. I actually like the ribbon in MS Office and it’d be cool to see it in OpenOffice. The MS Office ribbon is really sexy, unlike the Ribbon in the screenshot the admin posted above, hopefully they’ll add some graphical icons to it, instead of just text boxes.
@ThomasB, They’ll have icons once they post some sort of icon contest to trick designers into making icons for free.
Expect a lot of inconsistency as not all the icons will be made by the same person/team. Some commands will never have icons as well, and will always be text.
You must be signed in to leave comments.