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Re: RibbonBar mimicry from OpenOffice – too funny

Steven Hodson — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:32:54 -0000

for what I could figure out Joe the new toolbar is a proposal for the next version of OO

Re: RibbonBar mimicry from OpenOffice – too funny

Joemontana — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:03:08 -0000

Which version of OO is shown? I use OO on both of my computer, both the latest
v 3.01
OOO300m15 (build 9379)

They seem to just have the normal looking bar on top.

Re: RibbonBar mimicry from OpenOffice – too funny

Otto — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:56:30 -0000

I don't get it. Those look nothing alike.

Re: RibbonBar mimicry from OpenOffice – too funny

pb — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:22:32 -0000

I think the ribbon *is* more efficient, it was a surprise to me when it showed up, and the learning curve was very short but rather steep. In my case it also coincided with a rapidly approaching deadline, an almost finished report and a quick switch to a computer using the new office.

Re: RibbonBar mimicry from OpenOffice – too funny

Rick Mahn — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:50:45 -0000

Huh, strange. While I didn't mind the ribbon much when I moved to Office 2007, I *do* find it very curious that OpenOffice would copy such a feature. Kinda upsetting in a way as I always found OpenOffice to be the essence of knowledge worker tools - all the things you needed, but not much of the stuff you didn't.