Hello Mathias, thanks for the feedback. I personally want to see the users of course using this messenger. So we are interested to ship it with the OOo installer. But any start is ok and as you suggested to support that, that is great and sounds like a plan. Please do so, that would be great, but maybe we can sooner or later come to an component status, so that OOo RetroMessenger gets an own icon, see the vison on our homepage http://retromessenger.sf.netthere is already a SGV grapich for OOo Messenger. So yes please, start with adding the messenger. Do you need SVN access to RetroMessenger SVN? want to change some code so that it better integrated into the OOo environment, gui api and code? Then tell me your sf.net ID and as well if you like to be added to our internal non public dev mailinglist for commits and ideas.
Thanks Max On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Mathias Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Michael Schmidt wrote: > > > 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. > > No contradiction here - the question remains whether it must be in the > same installation package as the Office suite. IMHO this would require > some kind of interaction in GUI and workflow to justify the addition of > code and binaries. > > > 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. > > As there is no interaction at the moment, we could think about an OOo > extension that integrates into the OOo menu bar and starts the > messenger. This will leave room and time to think about possible > integration points and ways how to implement them. If you want, this > extension and its source code can be hosted in the OOo extensions > repository. > > > 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. > > Adding it to the OOo code base and download package isn't what we should > do in the first place, but having an extension would be a good start. If > this extension developed into something integrated with OOo we could do > a lot of things later. > > I can assist you in getting this extension implemented. We can then add > additional code to the extension (Java, C++, Python or OOo Basic) to > achieve better integration. Ideas could be transferring text from OOo > documents into the messenger or vice versa, sending whole documents etc. > > What do you think? > > Regards, > 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] > >
