Re: Word Processors

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> 	 Word processors are notorious for bloat because everyone wants
> to idiot proof the work against the workers.  There *is* some reason to
> do this, but I'd rather have a simplier program that they could
> understand and add modules to as they needed them.

Oh definetly.

Now, the big thing we are trying to push in Gnome is the use of our
recently finished ORBit CORBA implementation to decompose traditional
applications in various modules:  The idea is that the various
components will be actually different pieces of software (either as
shared libraries or as external processes), thus avoiding bloat on
components.

> 	 Don't think this is too far off what we've been looking at, but 
> if we include keystrokes per hour monitoring as a standard feature, I
> will be kinda annoyed and might kill you in my next novel.

Now, we can always conditionally ignore the stuff like the paperclip
(ie, click on "I know what I am doing" or "I dont want help from
you").  And in the worst case, well we ship source code, so it can be
removed in the worst case.

But the interesting part of the paper clip is not the animation: its
the logic to figure out what the user is trying to do and come up with
some help to the user.  IN previous versions of Microsoft Office the
paper clip was not an animated thing, but just a toolbar that from
time to time came up with an idea to help you.

Migul.