Q: So, now that Office 2003 looks like XPish and fruity and all that, is there a way to make it look more normal and the tone of some of its eye candy? Any “look” like setting in WinXP?
I felt the latest Office XP was still acceptable, but this appearance a bit too bloated to me.
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Re:ug, don't even get me started on lack of UI consistency in linux.
Noone said it was, but look at MS preaching about how bad the UI consistency is hurting the usability of Linux when they don't even follow their own UI guidelines. You can't tell me that Office, WMP or Visual Studio are consistent with anything, even across revisions they redo the UI to be completely different.
the problem is that every application has it's own damn look and doesn't follow the look of the window manager. it hasn't gotten a whole lot better over time either
The Window Manager isn't the Widget set, GTK apps look like GTK apps no matter what the WM is written in. If you are picky about what you run and stick with one widget set you'll be fine.
linux zealots can go f off. i like linux and all, but the variations between the distros is killing any possibility of being a mainstream OS
So? What'll that get us other than AOL for Linux and a lot more calls about why Tiger Woods won't run?
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Welcome to the world of M$ hipocracy…they bash the open source commnity for lack of UI consistancy, yet they cant even keep the same UI between close product lines
ug, don't even get me started on lack of UI consistency in linux. the problem is that every application has it's own damn look and doesn't follow the look of the window manager. it hasn't gotten a whole lot better over time either
take for example firebird's scrollbar. doesn't look a damned thing like any other scrollbar in kde or gnome.
linux zealots can go f off. i like linux and all, but the variations between the distros is killing any possibility of being a mainstream OS
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
if you dont like there products then DONT FRIGGIN BUY them!!! so sick of nitwits moaning and groaning over the Tyrannical MS company and the horrible injustices they perform….get STAR or OPEN OFFICE or Word Perfect
and…get a life
If you're so pissed about posts like these, then why do you read them?
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Re:Thanks very much for those who are making useful comments in the thread
I did find that to an extent, Office 2k3 follows XP's theme. For example, the bars and other areas are a lot more olive colored with the Olive theme, a lot bluer with XP default, and a lot more silvery with XP Silver. On classic: windows standard (which I usually use), it's more white colored, but the bloatsy bars and the shiny xp icons are still there.
I'm ok with the icons considering that even in Classic, XP has vibrant icons. The 3d-like bars though, remain regardless of xp theme.
At this point it looks like maybe M$ didn't make a way for us to change office appearance and that it may need a skinning prob/tweak.
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Re:It follows your XP theme, use the Classic look and Office2K3 will look different too.
if you dont like there products then DONT FRIGGIN BUY them!!! so sick of nitwits moaning and groaning over the Tyrannical MS company and the horrible injustices they perform….get STAR or OPEN OFFICE or Word Perfect
Some of us have a job that actually involves computers and don't have a choice in all the software we run. And quite frankly anyone is allowed to bitch here, that's part of the point of forums like this.
and…get a life
You took the time to make a post that contained nothing more than whining about someone else's whining and you think they need a life?
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Re:he didnt say he didnt like it, he said he wanted it to look different
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Re:if you dont like there products then DONT FRIGGIN BUY them!!! so sick of nitwits moaning and groaning over the Tyrannical MS company and the horrible injustices they perform….get STAR or OPEN OFFICE or Word Perfect
and…get a life
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Re:Hmm, maybe there's some kind of non-MS tweak for Office 2k3 appearance…?
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Re:Welcome to the world of M$ hipocracy…they bash the open source commnity for lack of UI consistancy, yet they cant even keep the same UI between close product lines
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