Noting how the ribbon interface is doing so well in MSOffice 2007 (even Jakob Nielsen was saying nice stuff about them), I’m wondering why the core gtk or qt developers haven’t tried to implement them?
I tried out a quick hack using a wx notebook or a pygtk tabbed vbox, and while it’s possible, it doesen’t have the same feel of the ribbon bar.
Microsoft shipped a Visual C++ feature pack, I heard, that allows the new MFC to comply to the TR1 release document (for the next version of C++ which’ll come with native Regular expression support), and this also comes with ribbon bar like functionality.
I don’t have the time to search if Microsoft has patented this or if there’s a way to use an interface like this in core of GTK or wxWindows, but there mostly will be. Nevertheless, we can take a cue from this and develop something similar.
I’m not gonna hack away at pygtk core source code. I’m barely getting used to the regular implementations anyways. So if some *nix gui guru is out there reading this, please implement this.
http://www.justhackit.com/