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Originally posted by matty
What do you think it will look like? I am wondering if it will incorporate a ribbon style type interface. What do the rest of you think?
For the love of God (or Yahweh or whatever):
NO RIBBON
Ribbon style is SO overrated.
Even MS has problems with the ribbon now in their new versions of software to accomodate everything. Their solution: strip out functions so they can keep the ribbon 'simple'.... DOH!
Please, please, PLEASE, do not fall for the ribbon trap and its 'slick' look. There is nothing 'slick' about a few way-oversized 'smart' buttons trying to guess what you want to do and getting it wrong or even frankly not providing the advanced feature you want, and while at it taking a quarter screen real estate with it because it needs to look 'slick'.
(and no this doesn't have anything to do with "getting used to it", not anymore)
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This said, I don't quite see how a ribbon would work in Plus!. Plus! consists of a bunch of options. A ribbon is not designed for something like that. A ribbon is more designed for stuff like layouting and text markup, etc. It doesn't do well for providing just settings.
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