Really? I wasn't presented with "the choice" at any time. I had to dig
around for the option. Sure I found it... but still. And it still doesn't
justify the anti-conventions thing. I guess (taking IE7 as an example) long
established norms, UI conventions and explicit guidelines are out the
window.
This is exactly what many of us spent the last 10 years telling our freshman
VB colleague programmers NOT to do. Enter the huge magenta buttons and
yellow background windows that don't use any of Windows' color definitions.
Oooh I can't wait.
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-C. Moya
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"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message
...
It gives the user the choice to pick whatever scheme they prefer for their
Office ribbon apps. Doesn't sound like a complicated technical explanation
to me.
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"C. Moya" wrote in message
:
It might "explain" it to you and me... technical people. It doesn't
REALLY
explain why- aside from technical difficulties- Office 2007 installs with
a
BLUE a theme on a WinXP set up to use XP Silver's scheme.
In other words, what I mean is that it doesn't JUSTIFY this totally
against-UI-conventions decision.
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"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message
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Yes, it does explain it. Which ones are blue and which ones are silver?
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"C. Moya" wrote in message
:
I don't really think normal users care about the technical differences
between Ribbon and Non-ribbon apps. None of what Jensen said (and I've
read
it before) explains why some Office 2007 apps on my desktop are BLUE
and
others Silver.
Horrible, inconsistent, UI if you ask me. Just plain bad.
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"Patrick Schmid [MVP]" wrote in message
...
Bob didn't mean that your users should read the blog. He meant that
you
should go to the blog and read about how Office picks the color
scheme.
The short is that the non-Ribbon apps pick a color scheme
automatically
based on what the Windows setting is while the Ribbon apps have a
setting
you can change. That setting is in Options, Popular and is labeled
"Color
Scheme".
To read the explanation of how the color scheme stuff works in 2007
and
when Office picks what, read these two blog posts:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...10/694577.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archiv...14/699304.aspx
Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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"C. Moya" wrote in message
:
I'm not going to tell all my users to visit a blog. This is UI 101.
I
guess
they'll have to contend with an increasingly inconsistent and
headache-inducing UI... or not upgrade to Office 2007 at all.
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-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com
"Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful
Downtown)compuserve.com
wrote
in message ...
Hi C.,
For the 2007 Office System, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, parts of
Outlook
and
MS Access received the new 'Ribboned' interface. Those
apps use the 2007 Office theme for the Ribbon element and for
their
'old
style' dialog boxes, they pickup the Windows color
settings.
For the apps that stayed with the 'traditional' menus, such as MS
Publisher 2007, the 'old rules' still apply as to what coloring
they follow. For backround and specifics on the User Interface
changes
you may want to visit the Office UI team blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh
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"C. Moya" wrote in message
...
I use XP's Silver scheme. Why do some Office 2007 apps use a BLUE
color
scheme while others like (Publisher) use the right scheme (XP
Silver).
It
looks horrible and contrasts with everything. Why the
disparity?!!!
-C. Moya
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MS Office System Products MVP
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