On 21 Jul 2008 at 11:49, Ian Lynch wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 08:23 +0100, Ben Dare wrote: > > I'm finding this whole idea very interesting. One concern, not all of us > > run slick, up-to-date, computers; would this integrated approach vastly > > increase the memory/processor use? Of course that's no excuse for > > programing to not move with the times, i just want to know. Would it be > > workable to universalise the file format so that every file opened in > > every program but you still retained the specific focus of each program > > with a general all-round use? > > What is needed is cooperative tools that fit together seamlessly. You > really don't want one big program that will become completely > unmaintainable. Even MS with all their resources has a problem with
Of course that's right. But with a correct basic design, you end up coding things just the once, which has to be a winner. /Why/ are tables in Writer different from Calc? [Rhetorical Q!] Obviously handling of objects is Writer is different from Draw - why two differing chunks of code? And so on and so forth - add your own pet examples. ... > The snag with OOo is that a lot of the application is lumped into a > megalithic chunk of code. It would be far better if there were many > smaller programs that could work together seamlessly but could also work > independently of each other. Surely it's a matter of organising libraries to do the specific job, then the "application" to call the required libraries is close to trivial (well, relatively speaking :-) ) But if the same job is done by /exactly/ the same code, life's a whole lot easier for both developer and user. But then, we all know that. -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
