Possibly an alternate UI for LO could be a Right Click anywhere on the Window, Enlightenment and XFCE use this to bring up the Main Menu in addition to having a drop down menu.
Wayne On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Stereotactic <[email protected]>wrote: > It has turned out to be very interesting discussion. And surprise surprise > that MS is dying a slow death. There have been comments on the early age of > computing (when I wasn't even born) and worked on Intel branded crap > hardware. > > Nevertheless, this is the time to focus on the User Interface. The "ribbon > interface" is not the "de-facto" standard but it becomes a frustrating > exercise to get people to shift to a new software if they are used to seeing > the familiar controls. I have faced this issue many times while trying to > convince different users to shift to FOSS and this obviously is a big issue. > I had raised the issue in local mailing lists (for Linux) and like bunch of > retards professed their helplessness. > > Hence, this is the time to seize the moment and bring out the dazzle. The > latest version of Libre Office is brilliant (I am using Linux Mint 10) and > has done a great amount of work as far as the stability is concerned. There > are excellent suggestions for working on the user interface and then it > would squarely kick MS's ass (and groins) where it hurts them at the most. > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers! > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
