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You know you can... click the ribbon to hide it right? The idea of the Ribbon is to use more space/text to tell the user what the icons mean. In practice, user
by dragontamer 3y ago
You know you can... click the ribbon to hide it right?
The idea of the Ribbon is to use more space/text to tell the user what the icons mean. In practice, users don't actually know what those buttons mean on the Word 9x example. While the Ribbon-interface at least has "Paragraph" or "Styles" to describe what their icons are.
- Arrath 3y agoWasn't this a solved problem long, long ago? Mouse over the icon and get a popup tooltip that explains more. No wasted screen space on a label that's always there and extraneous after you use the program for more than a week.
- jug 3y agoBut that toolbar consumes more space than a hidden ribbon that only shows on hover. A ribbon has tooltips too. But they aren't there to solve the space problem but the information problem.
- ipcress_file 3y agoI came here looking for this comment. You can also create a toolbar in the titlebar. So if you minimize the ribbon by default and add the old style icons to the titlebar, you end up with a really nice setup.