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Why do you think the ribbon API hasn't been utilised much since 2007?

kingmustard

Aside from Microsoft programs, the API hasn't had much use.

 

This topic was triggered by me seeing how many options are in the menus within Adobe Photoshop 2020.

 

The Edit menu alone has 30 or so options, many with sub-options.

 

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With Photoshop, it may be workflow-related.

 

Still, it's a shame more programs didn't adopt it.

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Too many submenus to make something like that efficient and worth an engineers time

Most frequent tools have shortcuts anyways

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8 minutes ago, kingmustard said:

The Edit menu alone has 30 or so options, many with sub-options.

30 items in a ribbon takes way more space than 30 items in a menu 🙂 Would be even more impractical. Ribbons have been criticised quite a bit for that reason too.

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You cannot force in a GUI design language, and you need to know your user base.

 

For professional application, probably, the user base are mostly keyboard shortcuts driven, and don't like change.

 

That said, they are programs that uses the ribbon bar in its GUI. Some programs that comes to mind:

  • Power Archive
  • WinZip
  • KingSoft WPS Office suite
  • Autodesk Revit

It main goal the ribbon bar solves is visibility of feature. This was a problem in Office. And that was well proven, when Microsoft released the first Office with the ribbon bar, Office 2007, they were many sites and forum users mentioned "new" features, that this new (at the time) version had, which already existed. 

 

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