Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 25, 2004 02:48 PM
For the sake of fairness, I should point out that this is because the OOo codebase predates any of the cross-platform toolkits that exist today.
That's true -- and it's also its age that makes OpenOffice so complete. It's got an enormous head-start in terms of functionality.
Now that they exist, and OOo is open source, we are trying to move towards using those toolkits. On version 2.0 OOo will use Gtk on GNU/Linux and there will probably be a Qt version later on as well.
But through a compatibility layer, isn't it?
What new app do you think we need? We need new functionality, and each version brings something. 1.1.0 brought PDF and Flash export, 1.1.1 brought DictOOo, 1.1.2 brought FontOOo.
A flow charter, a raster image editor, a report generator, for instance.
Oh well... we certainly could have used another coder.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
I'm afraid I wouldn't feel like I'm contributing anything useful for ages, if ever. Plus that the problem I'm currently interested in isn't covered by OpenOffice.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 25, 2004 02:48 PMThat's true -- and it's also its age that makes OpenOffice so complete. It's got an enormous head-start in terms of functionality.
Now that they exist, and OOo is open source, we are trying to move towards using those toolkits. On version 2.0 OOo will use Gtk on GNU/Linux and there will probably be a Qt version later on as well.
But through a compatibility layer, isn't it?
What new app do you think we need? We need new functionality, and each version brings something. 1.1.0 brought PDF and Flash export, 1.1.1 brought DictOOo, 1.1.2 brought FontOOo.
A flow charter, a raster image editor, a report generator, for instance.
Oh well... we certainly could have used another coder.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
I'm afraid I wouldn't feel like I'm contributing anything useful for ages, if ever. Plus that the problem I'm currently interested in isn't covered by OpenOffice.
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