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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Microsoft Office 12: new user interface
From:       kent () mslinux ! com
Date:       2005-09-23 16:49:13
Message-ID: 20050923094913.el43x83elyug48s4 () webmail ! aresnetwork ! com
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If you think this is good, wait till you see what KOffice 2.0 UI is 
going to be
like.  It's going to use Lowest State Design to facilitate writing 
documents. It'll blow Office 12 release out of the water.  BTW, the 
frick'n interview is
hella long.  It took about 15 minutes until she actually showed the UI.  I
don't have patience for that crap.  Okie, let me get to what I meant from the
Lowest State Design.  In the Lowest State Design, the user is oblivious to the
tool in front, with just a little information KOffice will automatically know
what the user will be doing.  And facilitate that action for the user.  Here's
how it will work:

1)  Assuming the user is writing a letter.  The user just write the letter
freely, identify fonts, size, and spacing.  Those will be taken into
consideration and we will have a preview of a templatized letter with the
content that the user add based on the fonts, size, and spacing the 
user use. User will be able to select other templatized letter and have 
their content be
in it to preview realtime.

2)  Previous state suggestion.  This mean, the user who created his/her
documents previously will have those tables, text, formatting, etc. be
suggested for his/her current writing document.  This facilitate the writing
process because the user would think to him/her that he has done this before
but couldn't remember which document.  BOOM!  We do it automatically for the
user by understanding the writing context and the way the user moves 
within the
UI.

These are just some of the features that will be in KOffice 2.0.  Believe me
when KOffice 2.0 comes out on October 29, 2006, it'll run cricles around what
you see in Office 12 Release today.  People think Office 12 UI is awesome, you
just wait to see KOffice 2.0, you will be like "MY GOD, KOffice 2.0 is 
going to
run Office 12 out of business." hehehe hahahaa Muahahaha =)

Watch this space, it's going to get exciting.  Buck your belt I'm going 
to give
you a quantum ride!



Quoting Adam Treat <treat@kde.org>:

> This is just awesome stuff.  I won't poo poo this just because it comes from
> MS.  They have done a good job IMHO with this one.  Just the idea that they
> could get rid of all the pull down menus in an app as complicated as
> Office...
>
> The mind boggles if we could only do this for Konqueror and some of our other
> apps...
>
> On Friday 23 September 2005 5:19 am, Ariya Hidayat wrote:
>> Any comments on the new Office 12 user interface? Video about it is
>> available http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=114720, it's
>> definitely worth to check. See also the related blog:
>> http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/
>>
>> On one side, this seems make it easier for people to work on
>> documents. But such radical changes could distance Office from some of
>> its user base.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ariya Hidayat
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