I would like to make a request regarding the ribbon bar.
I have been playing with the Office 2010 beta and besides the background "file" tab , I absolutely do NOT like the Ribbon bar. It looks like I imagine the Ribbon would have looked while it was still in development , a bland strip of grey with buttons and labels on top.
It looks like the Telerik control would look if it had no border or fill primitives - Ie : flat boring and bland.
Now I know Telerik always moves forward with the new trends but please , should you implement the new office 2010 ribbon style , please allow us to be able to select between the 2010 and 2007 styles .
Even the background "File" tab which is really useful for huge nested config windows like print etc , they are only useful for that .
For simple application menus on simple apps the old office button style is far more efficient and certainly far less intrusive.
Moaning mostly at Microsoft here , but also pleading to the Telerik team for consideration to the future of the Telerik ribbon control development.
I have been playing with the Office 2010 beta and besides the background "file" tab , I absolutely do NOT like the Ribbon bar. It looks like I imagine the Ribbon would have looked while it was still in development , a bland strip of grey with buttons and labels on top.
It looks like the Telerik control would look if it had no border or fill primitives - Ie : flat boring and bland.
Now I know Telerik always moves forward with the new trends but please , should you implement the new office 2010 ribbon style , please allow us to be able to select between the 2010 and 2007 styles .
Even the background "File" tab which is really useful for huge nested config windows like print etc , they are only useful for that .
For simple application menus on simple apps the old office button style is far more efficient and certainly far less intrusive.
Moaning mostly at Microsoft here , but also pleading to the Telerik team for consideration to the future of the Telerik ribbon control development.