Re: GNOME Office, RC1

[Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:35:18 -0400
> From: Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>
> To: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms 1407 org>
> Cc: gnome-office-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: GNOME Office, RC1
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 01:32:44PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> >   We think that GNOME Office should have a Release Candidate 1 out
asap.
>
> Release Candidate for which version ?
> My preference would be something like 0.5.  With a core set of

version numbers are important to some people.
seeing as Abiword and Gnumeric are 1.x, i would suggest jumping to Gnome
Office v1.0 as soon as possible (for cynical marketing reasons if nothing
else).

>     'Send file'
> operation in abi and gnumeric that used evo ?

Abiword has a .eml export plugin.

does Evolution understand .eml files?
they simple bog standard emails saved as plaintext using the .eml
extension.

Abiword also has a human readable text, which does *bold* /italic/ and
_underline_ which might be a nice effect to pass on to Emails.
I was considering that certain types of plugins could be shared if the
plugin API was harmonised.

I would not like to encourage people to send files as attachments when
people really should just be copying and pasting the text into the body of
the message or at the very worst use hypertext rather than a Word
Document.

Sincerely
Alan Horkan