A long-standing feature request in the QGIS repo has been an option for a ribbon-style GUI to replace the plethora of toolbars that usually characterize the top rows of any QGIS window. A couple of months ago Eithan published an experimental “Ribbon Toolbar” plugin for QGIS 3 that implemented a first version of this idea. I recently picked up the threads, ported the plugin to QGIS 4 and continued refining the structure of the tabs and ribbons, cleaning up truncated labels, design logical groups, and making icons for the most commonly used functions (based on my subjective experience, not objectively measured) large / more prominent:The new updated version 0.5 is now available from the QGIS Plugin Repo for you to give it a spin. Please note, however, that the code is NOT intended to be production-ready. Consider this a click-dummy that should facilitate discussion.This version doesn’t implemented any way yet to customize the ribbons. Of course, this could be added at a later stage. In any case, the user can, of course, switch back to good old toolbars at any time.Overall, the design is heavily inspired by LibreOffice’s ribbon theme option and targets new users / teaching situations. Like in LibreOffice, the idea would be to enable users to pick the type of UI style that they prefer — so there won’t be a on-size-fits-all i.e. fits-nobody situation. One tricky part will certainly be the handling of plugins. Right now (as of version 0.5), installing a plugin that adds a new toolbar will, initially, add this toolbar and you can place it anywhere (e.g. below or right next to the ribbons):Once you restart QGIS, the Ribbon Toolbar plugin will pick up on this new toolbar and will integrate it into the plugins ribbon:Obviously, this behavior is not sustainable for users who have installed a lot of plugins. Therefore, we’ll need a clever way to allow users to customize the handling of plugin toolbars. Maybe just a small button to pop them out of the ribbon or attach them back. In any case, if you have ideas and/or feedback for the ribbon design, we’d love to hear from you in the related thread. If you have other design proposal that you want to share, I’d love to read about them. Please drop a link below.