The participant Laurent Debacker in Google’s Summer Of Code has come up with something, that most non-experienced users will enjoy, as it will make the transition from a widespread flawed operating system even easier. The entire thing resembles the Office 2007 Ribbon interface, and has been written in GTK#. To be more exact, it are GTK# widgets that have been implemented. As a developer you can use those widgets to create and develop your own applications that feature the Office-lookalike.
Further it was mentioned that a new IDE will come, dubbed MonoDevelop, which then will also feature the new Ribbon interface. Sounds very interesting.
Comparison between Office 2007 and the new GTK# widgets.
The new GTK# widgets resemble Microsoft’s Ribbon interface.
Word 2007 with the original Ribbon interface.
Google SOC: GTK# Ribbon Library
ARS Technica: Mono developer brings the Ribbon interface to Linux
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