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

[Malyushytsky, Alex]

Ribbon may be a wonderful concept, if you are able to create descriptive presentation of the action
(either by icon or text). It just may be use as always visible menu.
This concept may not always work, but "explorer" style GUI is not ideal for all application either.

By the way there are a plenty of applications using tabbed toolbars in general and Microsoft office "ribbon" style.
If you want an example look at Autocad 2009 - I have it on my box.
I am not saying it is perfect there, but it looks better than on Microsoft products.
It also takes the same space as menu bar, cause it is auto-hidden by default.

Regards,
   Alex




-----Original Message-----
From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com [mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of Kustaa Nyholm
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 2:55 AM
To: qt-interest at trolltech.com
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] Any plans to implement Ribbons in Qt?

> 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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