Re: [Open Office] Re: Hello -- OOo Integration

[Ramanan Selvaratnam <rama ukfsn org>]

Hi Michael,

All your GTP related inquiries are best answered by others as I have a
huge task ahead.

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 01:35, Michael Meeks wrote:

> > Reusing strings without breaking the carefully constructed FSF
> > copyrights is the primary goal (for me). 
> 
> 	The copyright ownership is not important to me; however contributions
> have to be 'joint' assigned under the JCA to Sun for use in their
> propriatory StarOffice product in order to get up-stream.

oops.
All dreams shattered for me unless some one else can interpret any thing
positive here.

> 
> > Could some one point me to a resource or explain what additional GTK2+
> > features are involved. (I have already seen the initial presentation
> > few months back under gnome.org/~michael) what I would like to know is
> > what apps are working ...what is new etc.
> 
> 	OO.o is using neither gtk+ nor pango; although it'd be rather nice if
> it would use pango - I've no understanding of the details involved
> there; perhaps it's doable.

Wiered, there are even bug reports at OOo mentioning GTK IM.
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=15013
?!

I will install this (The official OOo version) along the week and update
you if no one else does.

> > Is it easy to extract what is free form any non free stuff in XD2?
> > Eg: Lets say I wanted to distribute on  Gnoppix (strict Debian)...
> 
> 	Sure; the Debian packagers are working with us, checkout the
> 'openoffice' module from CVS for our latest patch sets configure with
> --with-distro=Debian

Cool. 

Regards,

Ramanan