Re: What goes in gnome office ?

[Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>]

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:05:42PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > > All:
> > > Potential Gnome Office apps:
> > >   gnumeric
> > >   abiword
> > >   dia
> > >   sodipodi
> > >   ask around for more
> >
> > MrProject (which is why I'm interested).
> That seems like an excellent addition.
>
> Lets get some of the divisive decisions out of the way.  I'll
> tentatively suggest 'document centric application' as the deciding
> point.  Using the web page as a starting point :
>
> Definite Apps
>     Abiword
>     Gnumeric
>     MrProject
>     Presentation Program (To Be Written ?Achtung?)

> Probable Apps
>     SodiPodi
>     Sketch
>     DIA		- all are useful, and ideally one could form the
> 		  basis for the shared drawing layer.
>
>     GnuCash	- Uses Guppi and has previously expressed interest
>
>
> Possible Apps
>     GIMP	- Damn good, but its large enough to stand on its
> 		  own.  Lets leave it up to them.  Almost certianly
> 		  not for 1.0.
>     Evolution
>     Balsa	- Might be nice to have an email client, but that
> 		  tends to get religious.
>     Galeon	- Sweet application, not terribly office-ish.
>     EOG		- Necessary ?

i dont think Eye of Gnome is necessary.
if you are going to provide an Image viewer why not GQView?
http://gqview.sourceforge.net/
Not much point in having EOG if gnome is included.

>     ToutDoux	- How does this relate to MrProject ?

http://www.gnu.org/software/toutdoux/en/index.html
What kind of audience are you (dare i say we?) aiming at?
quote:
As much as possible, tasks are and will be subcontracted to front-ends
(command line).

is is really active?
quote
06/11/2001: I need to prepare a professional exam, so I put the toutdoux
development in standby (1 year).


>     GFax	- Office-ish ?

http://www.cowlug.org/gfax/
to the casual observer (ie me) it looks good
but he has moved to Python.  Are the other components that use Python,
good bad non-issue, i dont know.

> Definite Libs
>     Guppi	- Lets treat this like a library for now
>     libole
>     wvware
>     gnome-db	- I'll tentatively call this a library, no insult
>     		  intended.


/me relurk