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

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 05:02:27PM -0800, David Bolack wrote:
> At 01:03 PM 2/5/2004, Jody Goldberg wrote:
>
> > libgsf is a good start.
>
> with the Gnome-VFS wrapping in place too?

A gnome-vfs wrapping is available in libgsf-gnome, for use when
building with gnome extensions.  It needs testing.  There's also a
bonoboStream wrapper.  It's unclear whether it would be useful to
bother with a BonoboStorage.
 
> > 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.

That puts me on the spot.  Unfortunately I really don't know.  I've
been taking my time trying to do the widgets in GOffice the 'right'
way.  Things look pretty good.  There are a few tasks remaining

1) Rework the plugin interface in gnumeric and move it down.  I
   estimate this will take about a week.
2) Steal the value format engine out of gnumeric.  I had hoped to do
   a rewrite first but there may not be time.
3) Move down any of the gtk/glib utilities.  This is trivial.

However, a win32 build of gnumeric is still my first priority.
We're down to just 2 or 3 small remaining libgnome depends.

> 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.

The first major step will be to get someone to actually test things
and file some bugs.   We should be able to cut-n-paste in both
directions with rich content.

How about this for a list
For abi <-> gnumeric
    At a minimum
        - table size
        - alignment
        - fonts
        - colours

For gnumeric <-> gnomedb
    Goals
        - a test workbook to load data from a sample db
        - a gnumeric backend to gnomedb
        - a ui to load content from a db directly
        - a ui to save content to gnome-db (direct to sql too ?)

For abi <-> gnomedb
    ?? tests of mail merge ??