Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-design] Ribbons and Background Color UX

Hi Jay, all,

planas schrieb:
> Bernard
>
> On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 15:13 +0200, Bernhard Dippold wrote:
>
> > [...]
> >
> > But we should avoid to discuss details like graphical approach, menu
> > positioning and so on: The first thing to do is defining the functionality - form
> > will follow function when we really know how it should work...
> >
> > [...]
> I think we should try to understand what MS was trying to do with the
> ribbon and then examine how well it works and where it fails. More not
> to inadvertently make the same mistake
You are right, but I think the OpenOffice.org Renaissance team already 
did this job (at least I think so, knowing some of the people having 
worked in this area).
Could you or someone else check out what they discussed and defined in 
their wiki [1]? (you might search their mailing list [2] too, but there 
are more than 1000 mails in the archive)
If there is not enough information available, you might try to get more 
insight from Microsoft directly, if this is publicly available.
These information will have to be placed aside with available user 
feedback, so we can see what they wanted to achieve and what they really 
got.
But this will probably take some time and effort - I don't know if this 
time shouldn't be spent on tasks directly related to LibreOffice...
Best regards

Bernhard

[1]: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance
[2]: http://openoffice.org/projects/ux/lists/ui/archive

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