Mox wrote:
Eric B., your undeterred enthusiasm makes me happy :) It's very good
that OOo has such people, because too often (from reading dev-lists)
nothing gets done because it's deemed too big or too complex a change.
That's absolutely right - but of course you must allow for some
realistic estimates...
Anyways, thanks to Stephan, I noticed that there has been quite a lot of
related discussion in Jan 2005. Actually there was a person who did
quite a remarkable summary of that discussion as well. I strongly
recommend reading the mail Stephan linked to and also reading all (or at
least most) the stuff that is linked in here:
http://silveronion.blogspot.com/2005/03/mailing-list-research.html
Yes, there is a remarkable summary of many discussion threads around
migrating towards a new toolkit. Definitely worth reading.
I wish Sun people would have the courage to start a XUL or other
XML-based widget/chrome project for OOo (as a parallel to VCL). Then
develop/maybe migrate stuff little by little. Even MS does XAML. It
might not be ready for OOo 3.0, but just sticking to the current one
because it is too complex to change will bite back in the future. The
complexity and interrelatedness is only going away, if there is some
strong API/boundary to work with/migrate to. Obviously, currently VCL is
not working well in that area. Also, using XUL could be a chance to make
a very fruitful deal / collaboration with Mozilla Foundation/Corporation
In fact we're considering a change to XUL for parts of the user
interface. During the last months I did an evaluation of XUL as a
possible long-term VCL replacement (although this is pretty hard to
imagine) and wrote a first prototype in order to simplify the creation
and maintainability of dialogs. You can find my talk and probably the
slides on the OOoCon2005 webpages.
Stephan
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