Hi Kirill, *, On 6/10/07, Kirill S. Palagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While reading http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2007/06/openofficeorg-aquas-first-i n-depth.html I have noticed the following "Having separate application for Writer, Calc, Impress etc. takes a lot of work to redesign the way ooo works otherwise it would have been implemented by now. "
You should know, that he talks about the Mac-port. And on Mac, there's only one "Application", only one Icon to click on to launch OOo So the Mac-user will always start OOo Writer. And from within Writer he can open the other apps. The only way to launch calc directly on Mac, is to use a calc document template to click on, or to create a custom launcher (the last solution is nothing that could be done by the "regular mac user") So I'm pretty sure Shaun did mean that, and not really splitting up the apps.
Are there any plans to move away from our current monolitic binary?
Well, OOo isn't monolithic - and I don't think there are any new plans regarding "splitting it up in separate applications". I guess more effort will be put in restructuring the parts in a more clever way, so that not all features are loaded at once, but when they are needed. Making them truly separate would be a bad idea. Using the same code in multiple apps is good. But loading seldomly used functions on startup is bad. I think this is really what people have in mind when asking for separate applications. If you would now split writer, calc, ... into separate applications, they wouldn't launch much faster. The big feature set will be loaded nevertheless. The gain comes only when not all features are loaded at once. ciao Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
