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

[David Bolack <dbolack electricmulch com>]

At 07:04 PM 2/5/2004, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > 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.

  Good.  So beating the hell out of Libgsf needs to be a major waypoint.

  I'm trying to work up a list.

> 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

  How on the spot it is depends greatly, IMNSHO, on the timetable.  I 
think it's likely insane to expect the first pass at gofficelib to be any 
less than 6 months from now.

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

  This seems like a solid start.  Though I think we need to break this 
down in depth further. How is this info passed? XHTML? Custom DTD? etc.


It would be nice if we had a usability specialist on hand who could do us 
up some usability surveys.

> 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 ?)

  Again, seems reasonable.

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

  System for using Abi as the output source for gnomedb reports? ( I'm not 
familiar with gnomedb, I am afraid. I don't know if it has a report 
generation system. )