Re: [libreoffice-users] Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

[Wayne Borean <wborean@gmail.com>]

Possibly an alternate UI for LO could be a Right Click anywhere on the
Window, Enlightenment and XFCE use this to bring up the Main Menu in
addition to having a drop down menu.

Wayne



On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Stereotactic <maillist@postinbox.com>wrote:

> It has turned out to be very interesting discussion. And surprise surprise
> that MS is dying a slow death. There have been comments on the early age of
> computing (when I wasn't even born) and worked on Intel branded crap
> hardware.
>
> Nevertheless, this is the time to focus on the User Interface. The "ribbon
> interface" is not the "de-facto" standard but it becomes a frustrating
> exercise to get people to shift to a new software if they are used to seeing
> the familiar controls. I have faced this issue many times while trying to
> convince different users to shift to FOSS and this obviously is a big issue.
> I had raised the issue in local mailing lists (for Linux) and like bunch of
> retards professed their helplessness.
>
> Hence, this is the time to seize the moment and bring out the dazzle. The
> latest version of Libre Office is brilliant (I am using Linux Mint 10) and
> has done a great amount of work as far as the stability is concerned. There
> are excellent suggestions for working on the user interface and then it
> would squarely kick MS's ass (and groins) where it hurts them at the most.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers!
>
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