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> I hate this trend. Give me back menus and toolbars. Everyone has their own preferences; personally, every time I open Word, I am confused and disoriented and
by JadeNB 5y ago
> I hate this trend. Give me back menus and toolbars.
Everyone has their own preferences; personally, every time I open Word, I am confused and disoriented and have no idea where to look for what I want. I think it's best for no-one to try to impose their UI preference on everyone, and for all of us just to use the software with which we find it easiest to interact.
- thrower123 5y agoThis is the way everyone not responsible for creating it has always viewed the Office Ribbon UI. Most cursed creation in software.
- _dain_ 5y agocounterpoint: I'm an Excel power-user and I really like the ribbon UI. when you use the alt mode you can fly through it and opportunistically/incrementally learn the keyboard shortcuts.
- CornCobs 5y agoSomething that irks me a bit is that the UI (with it's animations) can't keep up with pressing keyboard shortcuts. For example in word to change font size you could just do Alt+h+fs+<number> but you can't just press it as a single chord, you kinda need to wait for the UI to focus on the correct fields to make sure you're at the correct place
- copperx 5y agoI know UI is subjective, but when the Ribbon was introduced I thought it was the best UI idea I had ever seen. It made the Office apps interface much more discoverable and easy to use than without it. It's a shame that the Ribbon paradigm is patented.
- BurningPenguin 5y agoI think LibreOffice did it quite well with the ability to change the UI layout.