Re: [libreoffice-users] Default file formats

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
:
> I find the ribbon bar much easier to use than the old menus and they look
> prettier.  People mostly just don't like them because they are unfamiliar and we
> all like to stay in our comfort zones.  LibreOffice is better despite having
> "old-style" menus, not because of it imo.  Many disagree about that and that
> gives another reason why we have opportunity now.

I don't like the ribbon primarily because it takes up a huge amount of
vertical screen space that is mostly just a waste.  When I write a
document, or even an email, I want as much vertical space as possible
so I can see as much of messages/documents in one shot as possible.

I also don't much care for the way MS decided for us what we do and
don't need to see up front.  I *do* like the tabs of the ribbon - once
I get used to them (however long that takes :-), I think they'll be
somewhat helpful and easier to use than the older menu format.  In
fact, it would have been a much better marketing approach just to turn
the File Edit View menu bar into a tab bar first, then (maybe) a few
years after this caught on, go the next step and limit the tabs as
they are already in O10.

However, a whole world change like this not only makes MS Office
ergonomically incompatible with every other similar app in the world
(probably on purpose), it requires a massive retraining effort for
users.  In any other business, this would be economic suicide.  (Yes,
I keep praying....)

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