Re: [tdf-discuss] Clear separation between frontend and backend?

2010-11-07 Thread RGB ES
2010/11/7 Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com:        The plan to keep, and improve the existing VCL abstraction for the next year or so makes a lot of sense I believe. Of course, I think nobody is asking to try to fly when we do not know if we are able to walk without too much problems.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Clear separation between frontend and backend?

2010-11-06 Thread Robert Derman
Lee Hyde wrote: Greetings All, I'm just a humble end user, and frankly I have little-to-no knowledge of software development but I was wondering whether there is a clear separation between frontend and backend with LibreOffice. Such that it would make it easy to essentially 'slot-in' a

Re: [tdf-discuss] Clear separation between frontend and backend?

2010-11-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:58:37 -0600, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking on something similar. If it were possible to completely separate core from UI it would be great. For example, someone who knows Qt but nothing about GTK will be able to create a gui for MeeGo without messing

Re: [tdf-discuss] Clear separation between frontend and backend?

2010-11-06 Thread Jesús Corrius
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 10:58 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking on something similar. If it were possible to completely separate core from UI it would be great. For example, someone who knows Qt but nothing about GTK will be able to create a gui for MeeGo without messing with

Re: [tdf-discuss] Clear separation between frontend and backend?

2010-11-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
- Original message - Hi Alexandro, On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 17:28 -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: represent some advantages. Certainly the development cost will be  disipated since the toolkit would be mantained by a broader community.     Having finally rid ourselves of one

Re: [tdf-discuss] Clear separation between frontend and backend?

2010-11-06 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Alexandro, On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 21:12 -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: I agree with that point however this toolkit is GPL LGPL. and also has a dynamic of being adopted by other mobile platforms like meego. Wait - I think I worked on that ;-) Just to weight the pros