[Qt-interest] Any plans to implement Ribbons in Qt?

[Irfan Omair]

Hi Alex,

As I remember Ribbon control is patented by Microsoft, I guess this is the
reason why Nokia Qt is not having this in there library.
In my openion any body releasing this control will have to pay license fee
to MS.


Regards,
Irfan omair

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Kustaa Nyholm
<Kustaa.Nyholm at planmeca.com>wrote:

> > To my knowledge currently only "MS Office" based products (Excel,
> > Word, Outlook, ...) use ribbons
> Not wonder since it is not that great UI concept. Starting from the fact
> that it eats a lot of vertical screen space when whole world is moving
> to wide screens and horizontal space is in abundance ... the designers
> of ribbon should get out more.
>
> br Kusti
>
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