Misconception #3: you gotta be nuts and/or a genius to use it
Heh, I ran into a guy who said he did all his programming in vi. He said a gui was a waste of resources. I've also run into guys at work who claim that inner joins are tools of the devil
Ever tried nano? If I'm forced to use a CLI I don't mind this text editor. If only I could persuade the AIX admins at work to install it
I forgot to call it "a box of pure malevolent evil, a purveyor of
insidious insanity, an eldritch manifestation that would make Bill
Gates let out a low whistle of admiration," but it's all those, too.
-- David Gerard, Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wikitext grammar, 2010.08.06
I don't understand why anyone think Microsoft Office 2007 has good UI. The ribbon interface is a stupid design, but if that is what stop you from using OpenOffice then you don't have to wait for long. OpenOffice is going to get ribboned.
According to a blog from Frank Loehman, a developer of OpenOffice.org, Sun is working on creating a new user interface for the open-source office suite. And from the screenshot, the new UI seems very much like the ribbons found in Office 2007.
Took me a while to get used to the Office 2007 ribbon but I love it now. Puts a lot of functions in an easy to access area rather than having them nested three deep in the menus.
Victoria Raverna wrote:I don't understand why anyone think Microsoft Office 2007 has good UI. The ribbon interface is a stupid design, but if that is what stop you from using OpenOffice then you don't have to wait for long. OpenOffice is going to get ribboned.
According to a blog from Frank Loehman, a developer of OpenOffice.org, Sun is working on creating a new user interface for the open-source office suite. And from the screenshot, the new UI seems very much like the ribbons found in Office 2007.
If it's such a stupid design, then why is OpenOffice adding it?
Victoria Raverna wrote:I don't understand why anyone think Microsoft Office 2007 has good UI. The ribbon interface is a stupid design, but if that is what stop you from using OpenOffice then you don't have to wait for long. OpenOffice is going to get ribboned.
According to a blog from Frank Loehman, a developer of OpenOffice.org, Sun is working on creating a new user interface for the open-source office suite. And from the screenshot, the new UI seems very much like the ribbons found in Office 2007.
If it's such a stupid design, then why is OpenOffice adding it?
Because OpenOffice want to attract MS Office users? I don't care what their reason to copy the ribbon interface, it is still stupid design to me.