This is as good a place for your question as any. You can tell there are strong differences felt about other user interfaces.
In any case, no developers have taken an interest in this and it won't happen unless a volunteer developer with the capacity, capability, and will to undertake something like that offers to provide it. Since it would impact the Linux and MacOSX interfaces too, this seems very unlikely. - Dennis PS: To the degree that there is intellectual property involved, I can't imagine that Microsoft would license it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tai Nen Chow [mailto:tnc...@hotmail.com] > Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 19:33 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org > Subject: Re: Ribbon Interface > > Hi Dennis, > > > > I agree with your view about file-format level. > > > > > Actually i would like to post the question to OpenOffice, until one the > users informed that I had posted to Users Group. Anyway I still > appreciate Dennis and other Users feedback. > > > > > Best regards, > > Eric > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> > Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 12:11 AM > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: RE: Ribbon Interface > > This is a Ford versus Chevrolet matter (or Toyota versus BMW, if you > prefer). Absolute statements like this are not helpful. There are > folks who find the ribbon and its growing consistency across Windows to > be very useful, especially since you can make the whole thing disappear > and pop down only when you want it. > > Regardless, there is no plan and no likelihood that Apache OpenOffice > will offer a ribbon interface. Apache OpenOffice was never intended as > a Microsoft Office "work alike," and there is no indication of developer > interest in any such massive change to the interface. > > In my view, there is greater benefit in having better interchange at the > file-format level with fewer conversion failures in either direction. > > - Dennis > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chuck Davis [mailto:cjgun...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 05:29 > > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Ribbon Interface > > > > Hopefully, never. It's a major productivity killer!! > > > > I'm currently working on a project where I've had to use excel....what > a > > pain!!!!!! > > > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Tai Nen Chow <tnc...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi, just wonder when will Open Office release ribbon interface > > version? > > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Open Office Supporter(Malaysia) > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
