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Re: [nebula-dev] Question about "Ribbon"
Hi Ralf,

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 ?

Laurent


Le dim. 24 févr. 2019 à 23:16, Ralf Heydenreich <rheydenr@xxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
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




Le dim. 24 févr. 2019 à 11:57, Wim Jongman <wim.jongman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
IIRC someone said there is no patent issue anymore.

To the batmobile, let's go.

From: nebula-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx <nebula-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Christian Pontesegger <christian.pontesegger@xxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2019 8:59:34 AM
To: Nebula Dev
Subject: Re: [nebula-dev] Question about "Ribbon"
 
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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