This may sound like blasphemy to Fedora people, but... What about moving to Mono (and making it more C# like)...
-----Original Message----- From: Michel RENON [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 12:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [libreoffice-design] Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior Hi, Le 29/04/11 07:15, Scott Pledger a écrit : > Is there any chance of implementing any kind of an XML-based UI template? > Something similar to XUL may be a good place to start... > > Yours Truly, > Scott Pledger > You're not the first to have this idea ;-) I digged into some folders and found the slides of the OOo Conference about that ! It was in 2005 in Slovenia and you can still see the video ! (but in a java applet !) http://ooocon.kiberpipa.org/media/index-day2-2005.html But I have to admit that I'm afraid about speed : today, on my MacbookPro ([email protected]), Firefox needs nearly ten seconds to launch...LibreOffice needs more than 20 seconds...and 5 seconds more before typing anay character...! So imagine LibreOffice with Gecko/XUL embedded... Or maybe something lighter : webkit with jquery ??? but it would require some UNO/javascript bindings ? ouch... And what about Qt ? (http://qt.nokia.com/) With the new Qt Quick (http://qt.nokia.com/qtquick/), wouldn't it be interesting to evaluate such a migration ? It would avoid to reinvent the wheel, it would allow to use standards tools (Qt Creator, Quick Designer)... One big problem is that it would replace VCL for widgets, but it would be in conflict with a lot of others parts of code : rendering, threads, network, filesystem...well nearly all the foundations of LibreOffice. But future versions of Qt won't be monolitic : http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/01/21/status-of-qt-modularization/ Maybe this will make it possible ? Michel -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
