On Mar 6, 2005, at 12:43 PM, Matthias Basler wrote:
I'd be intersted to know why you think that, particularly, Python is so important for "OOo's future success".
Not Python per se, but "dynamic languages widely used in the free software world." Python is the most obvious example. Gotta make it easy for people to extend.
Has Rob already looked into the new SDK to check if Python support has improved?
Not sure.
Get rid of the damned b and i toolbar buttons, and get serious about character styles and mapping them to XML!
Sorry to disagree here. Imagine a 70 year old grandma writing a letter to her
son. Using "bold" and "italice" and selecting a font+size does the thing. I
wonder how you would manage to tell that grandma to create a style for each
formatting first - which takes at least twice the time. You get the picture?
Yes, but I disagree this a problem. Have a toolbar button and customizable keyboard mapping that indicates the semantic meaning: emphasis, for example. It could be just as easy as the existing brain-dead presentational stuff if designed right.
Have you looked at Apple's new word-processing/DTP application? It's designed for novice users (including presumably grandma), and they've made the noble jump of removing this old UI cruft and reorganizing around styles.
The future is semantic, and OOo better get with the program. The UI challenge -- which can be solved -- is simply how to make this easy and intuitive for the user.
Bruce
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