On 4 April 2013 07:11, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 04/03/2013 04:41 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: >> >> >>> Alex Vergara Gil wrote: >>>> >>>> I don´t know if thi request can be made inside Qt (I think there should >>>> be some package for this in the nokia library!). >>> >>> Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> No it isn't. Mr Google suggest that "Qt team at one point stopped >>> developing >>> the control due to Microsoft licensing." >>> This sounds funny given the fact that tabbed toolbar was already around >>> in 90s >>> and I remember it from Borland's Delphi UI. >>> >>> Pavel >>> >> >> >> Yes indeed, this sounds like we should not be able to build frames at all >> because they look like Microsoft´s Windows and these are licensed by >> Microsoft ;) so what kind of things are legal or not? This point puts even >> more fuzzy to my logic! I thougth graphic design as long as it is not equal >> are not the same and we can make the ribbon as different as we want, just >> keeping the idea and even better, instead of putting it in the top we can >> put then at the left so we can avoid the vertical space eating that Jacob >> mentioned. > > > Though one can put it this way: Nokia decided they did not wish to spend a > gazillion dollars fighting a patent case, even if they might win it in the > end, and even if Microsoft's patent makes about as much sense as the old > joke that they would eventually patent 0 and 1. > > Remember: Apple got a design patent for a rectangle with rounded corners, > and they won a patent infringement suit against Samsung. Really. > > That's the sad state of US patent law.
Hi guys this might be an interesting example of something like those ribbon menus on Linux (with Qt): http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/03/wps-office-for-linux-looks-like-microsoft-office-but-isnt "The Qt suite apes the interface of Microsoft’s ‘Ribbon’ interface, and whilst I can’t tell you whether it’s 100% accurate in its replication (I haven’t used Microsoft Office long enough to tell), it’s certainly authentic looking." Just thought I'd share this -- not that I particularly love this kind of UI (I don't dislike it either). I work extensively cross-platform and sometimes with very old hardware/software as well so I tend to adapt wherever needed without much trouble, so to say. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
