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[Dot Matrix]

3 Charisma, on 01 February 2012 - 16:50, said:

You know... I once heard the default, brightly-coloured Start menu in XP described as "Fisher-Price-like", and it stuck with me.

Having that damn dog in the search didn't help XP either.

[Fus10n]

not bad

[Kirkburn]

I notice you've made all the icons the same size - tbh, that's not a good idea. Not all options are the same importance.

.Neo, on 01 February 2012 - 17:03, said:

The Finder by comparison. Sorry, couldn't resist!

The Finder, which apparently does pretty much none of the things that are in the ribbon.

[limok]

I like it, I know which theme I'm usin when Win8 is released.

[darth_vader]

Nice work Zain, I like it.

[pack34]

The Laughing Man, on 01 February 2012 - 16:51, said:

Yea good job Microsoft lets add more crap to explorer (regardless if you can hide it or not) clutter clutter clutter!!!

The ribbon is better for people who are newer to the platform or aren't as computer literate as the rest of us. Not everyone knows that you can double click a file name to rename it or the various keyboard shortcuts. Having a collapsable tools pane makes it much easier to use for newer users.

Since we know how to do everything we need by keyboard shortcuts or the command prompt we will never need to un-collapse the thing to access the tools.

[KevinN206]

All the screenshot are so far from the DP. When do icons get changed? In beta? RC? RTM?

[briangw]

.Neo, on 01 February 2012 - 17:03, said:

The Finder by comparison. Sorry, couldn't resist!

That looks even worse!

[.Neo]

Kirkburn, on 01 February 2012 - 17:56, said:

The Finder, which apparently does pretty much none of the things that are in the ribbon.

You have a hard time understanding the concept behind the Menu Bar and Action button apparently, that's okay though.

Zain Adeel, on 01 February 2012 - 17:43, said:

Well its not misleading
i didnt state anywhere that its from MS.

Not, but you must be able to see that others can interpret it as such.

briangw, on 01 February 2012 - 18:34, said:

That looks even worse!

We found another Microsoft employee! Haha

[~Johnny]

I see here a less efficient use of space than the current ribbon really - and again I don't see how this is more "consistent" than the current ribbon.

Personally I think the current layout of the ribbon is more than fine. At most, maybe a colour change to match the Office 2010 style ribbon, but given that this is following the default "Windows" Scenic style ribbon, it'll let let continue. Works like a charm in the dev preview anyway.

[Zain Adeel]

Yea. Works like a charm... Most cars work like a charm. But we still skip the ugly ones. If something works doesn't mean it should look ugly. Ribbon as it is is not designed in my opinion. It looks like old icons thrown in a grid. And well I gave ribbon some breathing room. All icons are equal because once you present them. Ppl will use them. We should treat them equal. Also with my design it still takes less space. The android mobile platform does really neat colored and freeform icons. Atleast bring up the quality to match them then. I will do a coloured version maybe.

[.Neo]

~Johnny, on 01 February 2012 - 18:42, said:

Personally I think the current layout of the ribbon is more than fine. At most, maybe a colour change to match the Office 2010 style ribbon, but given that this is following the default "Windows" Scenic style ribbon, it'll let let continue. Works like a charm in the dev preview anyway.

I honestly don't get why it needs to be there in the first place. I mean a bar that takes up half the window for cut, copy, paste etc.? You gotta be kiddin' me...

[vox_a]

@MS

http://www.youtube.c...wtXHPwGPE#t=36s

[Zain Adeel]

vox_a, on 01 February 2012 - 19:26, said:

@MS

http://www.youtube.c...wtXHPwGPE#t=36s

lol this was funny!

.Neo, on 01 February 2012 - 19:13, said:

I honestly don't get why it needs to be there in the first place. I mean a bar that takes up half the window for cut, copy, paste etc.? You gotta be kiddin' me...

I only understand ribbon in specialist Softwares like the Office Suite. or Photoshop or other such softwares. Not in Windows Explorer.
But.. to me the only logical reason to add them to the WE is to make it easy for touch users. (But then we dont need those small icons, thus resulting in my use of equally sized icons)

[Mocosoft]

I like the icons.. But I'm thinking on getting ride of the bar and add the functions to the mouse pointer..



Sorry for the bad mockup.