LibreOffice's is getting its own "ribbon" interface

[Valtam]

Source - http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/l...ke-ribbon/

[torreydale]

I had mixed feelings (meaning I didn't like it) when MS Office introduced this in Office 2007.  It took up more vertical display space, in my opinion.  And it took more time for me to find what I needed.  Because more businesses used Office 2007 than used Windows 8, it's interesting that forcing the use of the ribbon with Office 2007 didn't cause as much of a stink as forcing folks away from the Windows Start button. 

Perhaps as the article shows, LibreOffice will, at least for a time, offer the ribbon as an option.

[richtea]

I count RIBBON as a four-letter word. It was the reason I dropped MS Office for good a long time ago.
From what I have read the thing in LibreOffice will indeed be optional, and so be it. For unfathomable reasons, some MS Office users like their paid-up ribbons, so the current development might be a way of attracting them to an open-source variant. I shall remain a ribbon-hater and ribbonophobe.

[firenice03]

I wasn't a fan of the Ribbon way back in 07, considering I was also having to support office and the majority of questions were; where is this and how do find what used to be here...
Now its coming up on 10 years later and the MS ribbon is still here.. New users in the work force are familiar with the ribbon, install office 2003 and everyone would go nuts (again)...
So it maybe a good thing  LibreOffice is conforming, conforming to the masses of folks that use office and only know how to navigate using the ribbon. Its funny to show someone LibreOffice and say its just like MS Office; then they say it doesn't look like it, lol...

I do like the option to enable the feature, should keep both sides of the fence happy  8) 8)

[Carney]

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Oh NO!

I've always considered the Ribbon a user-interface atrocity just below the Metro interface MS force-fed on users starting with Windows 8.  The Ribbon breaks decades of muscle memory and familiarity with the File and Edit menus in particular, and aggressively creates MS-only app conventions that clash with the standard behavior and look-and-feel of all other apps.  Just yesterday I saw the consequences of this in an InDesign training class, watching someone floundering helplessly when told to go to File, Open or Edit, Undo.

LibreOffice lacking the Ribbon has always been one of its top reasons for me to recommend it.

[Valtam]

As long as it remains an option, they will avoid the kind of freak-out that happened to Ubuntu when they went to Unity.

[UltraCookie]

I never had a problem with the ribbon in MSOffice.
But on a wide screen display when writing in Word it takes a lot of space away from the actual document.
In LOffice I moved the menus to the sides. I wish that could be done in MSOffice.

[Valtam]

More info on this - https://design.blog.documentfoundation.o...-toolbars/

[torreydale]

I looked this over, and..........................................................my head hurts.

I'm glad these folks exist because I don't want to do what they do.

[TMG1961]

I only use it for my spreadsheet, as long as that works then i don't mind what they do to the interface