Re: gnome-office website (was Re: We're removed from FC2 ?)

[David Bolack <dbolack electricmulch com>]

At 01:03 PM 2/5/2004, Jody Goldberg wrote:


> This is of paramount important in my mind.  There are several tasks
> common to all the major office components.  Having all of us
> replicate them seperately has been a major impediment to growth, and
> interoperability.  Doing a good job on even simple components takes
> time.  I've spent a good week on just the colour combo boxes.  Why
> would we want to waste that, or to give the user different behaviors
> depending on the app ?

  Okay. I see your point here.  I was likely applying too much credit to 
GTK libs for a little too much of this. :) You are, of course, correct, sir.

libgsf is a good start.

with the Gnome-VFS wrapping in place too?

> hopefully libgoffice will be in place soon and will help take things
> further.

  I think, then, one of the primary parts in whatever the first step is 
will be to roadmap this out and establish it in it's own CVS tree.  Then we 
can build a roadmap between the applications at that point and the 
applications in the next "Version" of GnomeOffice.


True.  This is more important than (2) in many ways.  We need to
> have good clipboard support at a minimum.

  I (we as a group?) need to map out what features are needed for good 
cross app behavior ( integration is not the word I want here, I think 
).  We might even should establisha  separate bugzilla.