Re: Gnome Office updates

["Dom Lachowicz" <cinamod hotmail com>]

> > >> Unless Gnome Office is going to be ruthless on a 'advocate one app
> > >> only  for each task', which is not something I would have thought we
> > >> would  want to be doing.
>
> It would be aq taad hypocritical of us to advocate along those lines
> given that we're complaining about our apps being removed in favour
> of OOo using the same logic.

I'd have to disagree here. I don't complain about our apps being "removed" 
in favor of OOo because we're just "duplicate functionality." I complain 
about it because OOo has absolutely nothing to do with Gnome technologies in 
its current form. It doesn't use GTK. It doesn't use the icon theme spec. It 
doesn't use GnomePrint. It doesn't use VFS (ok, maybe Michael's branch 
does). It doesn't use much of anything Gnome-related. At least something 
Mozilla uses some GTK/GDK bits under the hood and makes a passable attempt 
at following my GTK theme...

OpenOffice is OpenOffice. Look, they've got the word Office right there 
embedded in their name. And what precedes that is not "Gnome." OpenOffice is 
not GnomeOffice, though it is plausible that some could call it "Gnome's 
Office Suite". The space in the name is quite significant to me.

Tripping in semantics,
Dom

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