Hi, > even though there were some improvements regarding gtk-integration in LO 3.4 > there are still some issues like the flickering you mentioned. Are there any > plans to rewrite LO in gtk or QT as part of the UI redesign? At least in my > opinion that would be a huge improvement, make LO look far more professional > and would probably make coding the new UI easier. > How I understand it, LO is based on a "UI framework" that isn't native on > any system and has to be extended for each OS, right? Wouldn't it also > reduce coding work by simply delivering LO on Windows bundeled with gtk like > The Gimp? > What do you think?
You're correct, LibreOffice is based on something custom called VCL and the only programs that use it are LibO, Ooo, and to a lesser amount Symphony (which is based on Ooo). It has to be extended for each other UI toolkit it is supposed to mimic. Sadly, switching is not as easy as bundling GTK/Qt, else it would have surely been done already. When there is so much UI to be taken care of as in the case of LibO this would probably equal a complete rewrite of LibO. While in the long run this may be worthwhile, it would mean developers wouldn't do much besides rewriting everything in the next few years. It also means that instead of starting LibreOffice, the Document Foundation would have been better spent its time and energy on developing Koffice or Abiword/Gnumeric and brought these programs to a state in which they could compete against Openoffice.org and Microsoft Office. Astron. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
