Hello Mathias, thanks for the feedback. First of all, I think OOo needs an instant messenger. ( for a browser and email client we develop currently one and I come back to you for this issue in 2009). Messaging is a thing you need in business and office applications.
Second, retromessenger needs no central authority so it is ideal for a community project like OOo and needs no server admins. It is maintenance free. Third, it is encrypted communication by default, which is needed for bussiness exchange and as well in these ages. Forth, the messenger should of course interact with OOo features and vice versa. The idea is to make it a normal component of OOo and then a lot of features and integration will come. Please see it as a first pregnancy and not a super dooper thing. This messenger is our first release and it is though very functional and very good working, We will iron out some bugs and then release as well windows and mac. Wx widgets is portable like OOo gui Api. So please see it a a first sperium meeting OOo. If you have the Resource of developers adding a OOo gui Api to it ( no feedback on the list), i suggest to stay with the current gui. We just need a go that is i sok as a component and joining you the development at OOo. With RetroMessenger / OOo (Retro)Messenger (we can rebrand!) you can send documents and organizer dates over the messenger secure, and you can even make a whitboard over the messenger, the library offers a network layer, so many potentials. Please consider that there are many feature, network and app ideas, how to use that network of friends. e.g. appraisals can be done over it, if a class is developed. Furthermore we want that OOo components allow to send other users on the messeger OOo Component features. But see, we need a start somewhere and that is in my eyes that adding od that instant messenger as a component to OOo. Then further development will start (integration OOo Gui Api etc). But we need a start somewhere. We developed now for one year a start for the OOo messenger and now it is a little bit as well OOo´s turn to accept the messenger or not. IF agreed, the community should be able to see the component and then we can all start on developing it. Thanks for a feedback how to go on. Regards Mike On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Mathias Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Michael, Michael Schmidt schrieb: > Hello Laurent and Louis and Team on the List, > > one year ago we talked about OOo getting an Instant Messenger and we talked > about the serverless and maintainance free messenger based on libretroshare. > > Now we have a release of a small tool, which we want to discuss for an > integration into OOo. Where do you see possible integration points? Does the tool communicate with OOo somehow or is it planned to add some interfaces between the messenger and OOo? The way this integration is planned to work will have some impact on GUI choices. If you don't have or plan to have an integration of the messenger into OOo's functionality (or the other way around), I wonder whether it needs to be "added" to OOo at all and why it can't stay a separate application. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
