Hi Laurent,
That is great news! Do you think we should contact Microsoft to know if we can reverse engineer the ribbbon? Maybe the EMO (in cc) is able to advise us.
We are talking about recreating the Microsoft Ribbon which is attached in a picture.
Cheers,
Wim
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Subject: Re: [nebula-dev] Question about "Ribbon"
Well I've checked RWT and the source code has not been published.
So I've decided to start to work on this feature. Do you know any "flat icon" library that can be included in a EPL project ?
I agree with you: Microsoft is very proud of Ribbon Bar (that's why it has been introduced in the File Explorer of Windows 10), but the gap for users is very important. I remember the arrival of Office 2007, many people where puzzled, but
once
you accustomed, you are very productive. I agree also with the fact that companies should take care of this UI feature, it can be a big mess (as far as I know, the Ribbon was tested during 2 years by Microsoft Labs before being shipped).
I never heard about RWT but I'll have a look, thanks.
By the way, does anyone interested in this project ?
Am 24.02.2019 um 17:29 schrieb Laurent Caron:
Well if my level of Wim's language is good enough, a sentence with the word "batmobile" means "Green light"
😉
As far as I remember, the look of Hexapixel's ribbon was really close to the "office 2007" look... Nowadays, Word's ribbon is more flat, without gradient...
So my question is : should we start from the original ribbon by Emi, should we build a new project from scratch or should we migrate project like FXRibbon ([1]) from JavaFX to SWT ?
I'm interested by this widget, who else ?
Hi Laurent,
a few months ago I've also player around with the Hexapixel Ribbon library, but I've decided to not use it. I think, the concept of a "ribbon bar" is specific for Microsoft applications, especially for Windows users. MaOS and Linux users have other UI concepts.
Nonetheless, I think we can work on such a ribbon widget for SWT, since a lot of applications are running under Windows (in my experience). Therefore it's good to have a well known concept of a UI.
Btw, there's also a "Ribbon Widget Toolkit" (https://code.google.com/archive/p/rwt/), but it is completely in Chinese language and I haven't work with it.
Ralf
IIRC someone said there is no patent issue anymore.
To the batmobile, let's go.
Interesting IP situation. Do you now, does Eclipse try to sort out such
issues, eg by contacting Microsoft to find an alternate way of
licensing?
Christian
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