Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Nico Williams wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Nico Williams wrote: >>> textual user, I prefer everything as textual as possible. I'd even >>> like a search feature for menus/functions, and in gener

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-09 Thread Nico Williams
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Nico Williams wrote: >> textual user, I prefer everything as textual as possible. I'd even >> like a search feature for menus/functions, and in general I'd like >> > That's a good idea and easy to pull-off: P

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Nico Williams wrote: > textual user, I prefer everything as textual as possible. I'd even > like a search feature for menus/functions, and in general I'd like > That's a good idea and easy to pull-off: Put in a search box that will filter UI-elements given a keywor

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-09 Thread Nico Williams
Since we're piling on... I don't mind the sort of ribbon menu as they've evolved to be at MSFT, but I do prefer pull-down menus with *text* instead of icons. I'm a textual user, I prefer everything as textual as possible. I'd even like a search feature for menus/functions, and in general I'd lik

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-07 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> On the other hand ribbon menus once you get use to them you find your > productivity increasing, I had been forced to use MS crapware for quite some. And getting rid of those ribbons by switching to LO was the only way to come back to anything close to "productivity". Add-ins that allow to get

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-05 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
- Original Message - From: "Jürgen Spitzmüller" To: Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 11:16 AM Subject: Re: feature request: ribbon menus Well, this is an open source project. So if there are no license issues, everybody who is motivated enough to implement and maintain suc

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-05 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > As I said this is my personal opinion so I migth be wrong, but I haven´t > received any useful opinion (besides M$ patent) of why not doing such a > thing just a few user complaining they will affect some how what they feel > is comfortable. Regarding the patent believe

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-05 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
- Original Message - From: "Steve Litt" To: Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2013 7:38 PM Subject: Re: feature request: ribbon menus On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 14:31:07 +0200 (CEST) Csikos Bela wrote: Alex Vergara Gil írta: >Hello developers! > >I have a feature req

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-04 Thread Juha Meriluoto
On 3.4.2013 19:20, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > Hello developers! > > I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you: Ribbon > Menus. > > The actual look of lyx makes duplicate functions in text menus and icon > menus, besides there is a lot of space wasted by allocating the icon

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Richard Heck
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 th

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
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 sound

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Pavel Sanda
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!). 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 fa

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Jacob Bishop
Opinions are cheap, so I guess I'll offer mine. Patents are one thing I know next to nothing about, so that may be a game stopper to begin with, as Richard pointed out. I may be in the minority here, but in general I think the ribbon toolbar is a useful improvement for Microsoft products (at least

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/03/2013 12:20 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: Hello developers! I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you: Ribbon Menus. If someone wanted to code these as an option, I'd have no objection, except for the fact that Microsoft appears to have patented this: http://www.

feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
Hello developers! I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you: Ribbon Menus. The actual look of lyx makes duplicate functions in text menus and icon menus, besides there is a lot of space wasted by allocating the icon menus. This has nothing to do with intrinsic code but to