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Am 24.02.2019 um 17:29 schrieb Laurent
Caron:
Hi,
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 ?
Laurent
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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