On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Lars, > Yes, the UI must be such that it works even on low resolution systems. Below a certain threshold, making the UI fit into the screen resolution is a *significant* effort, for an application as complex as OOo, offering as many possibilities as OOo does. There are certainly *much* more worthy things to do in OOo. Can you go into more details than just crying "is too hard". OOo4Kids have been minimizing the interface when needed and the work has been significant but not impossible and also much more worthy activity to invest in. From what I have seen at the maemo dev list, changing the UI of apps like Xchat or Pidgin to fit into this resolution has been achieved in matter of weeks. Then again GTK is not really OOo's AWT/SAL it does raise the question on how hard is just to drop the features all together for a basic editor. However as GTK some of the UI is basically drawn by XML files (XCU) so manipulating or adding new XCU that redraw the dialogs.From what I know, OOo already supports a huge ammount of functionality that is not accesbile through the UI. I remember Thorsten presentation about exactly pushing a lot of functionality that the UI miss to pull through.
Despite what has been said in the article: Running OOo on a 800x480 pixel device *is* for geeks, not for practical use. He reffer to the way to implement it, but as many organization has been pushing the idea of an ODF editor on movile devices like VisorODF funded by a major organization in Spain. As well as others. > I see it as part of the KISS principle that is so unpopular these days. Sorry, that's nonsense. Scaling down to such a resolution has nothing to do with "simple". Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [email protected] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Espa&ntilde;ol IM: [email protected]
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