Windows 8: Pushing hated UI elements
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Does anyone like the ribbon interface? My wife, decidedly non geek, curses Office 2010 every day she has to use it because of the ribbon. I can't stand it myself. It takes up too much room with the added benefit of making things harder to find. I'm glad I bought my first Mac.[^] Yeah, I said it.
This is the first reaction of most people. Unfortunately, software companies feel that they have to switch to a ribbon interface in order to "stay current". It's useless to complain to Microsoft - as long as that idiot Ballmer is in charge - but you will have better luck complaining to other software companies. TechSmith, for example, redid their ribbon interface after they were hit with a ton of complaints about the ribbon.
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Does anyone like the ribbon interface? My wife, decidedly non geek, curses Office 2010 every day she has to use it because of the ribbon. I can't stand it myself. It takes up too much room with the added benefit of making things harder to find. I'm glad I bought my first Mac.[^] Yeah, I said it.
i despise the ribbon
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No; loved it straight away. Happy to embrace change when it appears beneficial straight away: the ribbon always felt like change for change's sake rather than an improvement where none was really needed.
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What's a ribbon interface? :-D Just looks like a slightly different toolbar to me, or maybe I just haven't had to use a fully ribbonised application yet? What bugs me about windows explorer was that they dropped the icon from the start menu and the quick launch toolbar in XP and screwed with the address bar in vista. I'm sure they'll find another way to really piss me off in 8.
Pete
Peter Mulholland wrote:
What bugs me about windows explorer was that they dropped the icon from the start menu and the quick launch toolbar in XP and screwed with the address bar in vista.
You missed the funny and erratic treeview in Windows 7 Explorer.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Embrace the ribbon. BE THE RIBBON!
Touch the ribbon, feel the ribbon, caress the ribbon, oh wait - wrong forum!
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
wrong forum
Wrong bally web-site!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Embrace the ribbon. BE THE RIBBON!
Touch the ribbon, feel the ribbon, caress the ribbon, oh wait - wrong forum!
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
You are the ribbon...
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No; loved it straight away. Happy to embrace change when it appears beneficial straight away: the ribbon always felt like change for change's sake rather than an improvement where none was really needed.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
digital man wrote:
the ribbon always felt like change for change's sake rather than an improvement where none was really needed.
A-fuckin-men!
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Does anyone like the ribbon interface? My wife, decidedly non geek, curses Office 2010 every day she has to use it because of the ribbon. I can't stand it myself. It takes up too much room with the added benefit of making things harder to find. I'm glad I bought my first Mac.[^] Yeah, I said it.
I find it very good actually. Keep in mind that you can collapse it. There should be a small arrow in the top-right corner.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
wrong forum
Wrong bally web-site!
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Peter Mulholland wrote:
What bugs me about windows explorer was that they dropped the icon from the start menu and the quick launch toolbar in XP and screwed with the address bar in vista.
You missed the funny and erratic treeview in Windows 7 Explorer.
Really? I'm using 7 at home and haven't noticed that. What bugs me about 7 is that my explorer window "changes" to the network and sharing center or the control panel or what ever else. Just leave my goddamn explorer window the way I like it and open another window for anything else that doesn't have/need/use a tree view of my hard drives/directories on the right hand side!
Pete
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The Ribbon was introduced in Office 2007 because nearly all of the requests for new features in Word were for features that were already present. The team decided that they had so many commands, and that they were scattered in so many different places that a new approach would be needed for organising the menu options. They held an internal competition to find new ways of organising menus and the Ribbon was the one that was picked - primarily, I suspect, because it looks like a super toolbar, and users are already familiar with toolbars.
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I'm not a fan of toolbars either.
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i despise the ribbon
Me too. It should be an option. I'm sticking with Office 2003.
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Does anyone like the ribbon interface? My wife, decidedly non geek, curses Office 2010 every day she has to use it because of the ribbon. I can't stand it myself. It takes up too much room with the added benefit of making things harder to find. I'm glad I bought my first Mac.[^] Yeah, I said it.
I have switched to notepad++ for most things then just copy to Word to format. It is so painful when all of the menus are context based so you have to have perfect pixel placement to get the correct context menu.
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Does anyone like the ribbon interface? My wife, decidedly non geek, curses Office 2010 every day she has to use it because of the ribbon. I can't stand it myself. It takes up too much room with the added benefit of making things harder to find. I'm glad I bought my first Mac.[^] Yeah, I said it.
Once I got used to it I liked it.
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Does anyone like the ribbon interface? My wife, decidedly non geek, curses Office 2010 every day she has to use it because of the ribbon. I can't stand it myself. It takes up too much room with the added benefit of making things harder to find. I'm glad I bought my first Mac.[^] Yeah, I said it.
I don't mind the ribbon, it's the effin contextual guessing game I hate. It's like having crappin' Clippy back, only now he's just hiding behind the ribbon exacting his revenge, only pissed off because no one liked him. I would like that I can lock the ribbon when I am doing something instead of it changing because Word or Excel thinks I want to change the font to some pansy pastel color. I used to be able to drag a tool bar and have it float near where I was working.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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If you're involved, I think Rule 35 more appropriate. [BTW, does Smitha[^] know about this?]
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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I find it very good actually. Keep in mind that you can collapse it. There should be a small arrow in the top-right corner.
If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe, but not a personality. [Charlie Brooker] ScrewTurn Wiki, Software Localization Tools & Services and My Blog
Dario Solera wrote:
I find it very good actually.
I have to say I'm surprised how many here like it. It makes me wonder if I'm missing something and maybe I should give it another shot. Nah, I have a Mac now. (Which is a license for me to be a snooty asshole, right?)
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If you're involved, I think Rule 35 more appropriate. [BTW, does Smitha[^] know about this?]
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
If you're involved, I think Rule 35 more appropriate.
:laugh:
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
She says she's too classy to read the Lounge these days. :rolleyes:
Regards, Nish
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Me too. It should be an option. I'm sticking with Office 2003.
At least Office 2003 worked. The graphics suck versions after, the graphics prettier and work if you only have 3 or 4 data points. :doh:
It was broke, so I fixed it.