Re: short minute of meeting at guadec

[Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au>]

Hi Folks,
	I've just committed a plugin for abiword called "AbiCommand" with
it you can do things like edit a document, load, save and print from a
command line or via an eternal program using fs = popen("abiword --plugin
AbiCommand") and pipe commands in. It is also possible to write a CORBA
interface to this but it is not obvious why that would make things easier.

Anyway with in place it seems to me we should start on putting together
"Gnome Office Works." To things like form letter generation and envolope
printing. (Pull data from gnome-gb or gumeric and use it replace defined
text in an abiword document.

I'll be away for a week but I'd be more than happy to help out on this
when I get back.


Cheers

Martin


On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 23:37, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 23:26, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > gnome-db is also ready to be a GNOME Office application, even though
> > > it's not 1.0 yet :-). gnome-db uses heavily Bonobo, which is, in my
> > > opinion, the thing to use as the glue for GNOME Office apps.
> > 
> > it may have missed my notes :)
> > 
> I wasn't at the BOF, so it's my fault :-( I didn't even know about it,
> since my program said 'BOF #3', which is the one I suppose was the GNOME
> Office one :-(
> 
> > > > Jody:
> > > >  - gtk? for a future...
> > > >  - present: advantages from using glib (unlimited undo redo, and other
> > > >             cool stuff)
> > > >  - use more shared elements (like a shared zippy file), embbeding stuff
> > > one of the best things we should start doing is to move the different
> > > filters for file formats to a libgnomeoffice. So, the question is, what
> > > do you think about moving the different filters being used in gnumeric,
> > > abiword, etc to that libgnomeoffice? How difficult would that be for
> > > cross-platforms apps such as abiword?
> > 
> > I don't know how to answer this, maybe someone else will be able to do
> > it.
> > Right now, most of abiword's filters are built in, although there's no
> > real reason they shouldn't be transformed into plugins.
> > 
> > However, I can't see exactly how can gnumeric (for instance) benefit in
> > terms of code from a load word doc plugin...
> > 
> to export to that format. It might make no sense in some situations, but
> in some it makes a lot of sense. For instance:
> 
> * create a .gnumeric file from a resulset retrieved in gnome-db. It
> makes a lot of sense, since you can easily map database rows to gnumeric
> rows.
> 
> * create a database via GNOME-DB from gnumeric.
> 
> * create an abiword document from a gnumeric spreadsheet, graphic,
> database data, etc
> 
> and a lot of other examples.
> 
> > > This will give us a lot of integration, since we'll be able to
> > > understand all formats in all GO applications, and that will allow us to
> > > do very nice things, such as creating a gnumeric spreadsheet directly
> > > from gnome-db, without knowing about any specific CORBA interface or
> > > whatever.
> > 
> > bindings between gnome-db and gnumeric may seem reasonable in certain
> > circunstances (but i can't see any right now.
> > 
> well, there is already a plugin for gnumeric, for inserting data from a
> database into a gnumeric spreadsheet, via gnome-db. I can see a lot of
> other usages we can use to integrate data from a DB into a spreadsheet.
> 
> cheers
> -- 
> Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> - <rodrigo ximian com>
> http://www.gnome-db.org/ - http://www.ximian.com/
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