On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 22:55:32 PM +0000, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I think that is roughly what people are driving at. In the tech > republic article it shows that LibreOffice has/had one built-in that > had it's own gui-front-end / wizard. It suggested that would be great > if it could be freed-up from the rest of the code and provided as a > stand-alone program/utility/package, perhaps even purely as a > command-line tool only with no gui front-end. > > I don't even think such a thing would be possible, or if it was it > sounds to me like it would be incredibly difficult.
I'm pretty sure it would be incredibly easier and more sustainable than keeping support for old formats in the actual office suite, EVEN in the form of extensions like this: > > On 12/17/2013 12:31 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > >> Maybe someone would make an extension to give LO users access to > >> reading all of those legacy formats, when that is needed. That > >> way you can disable it when not in use but still have the ability > >> to read all of those old legacy formats. -- M. Fioretti http://mfioretti.com http://stop.zona-m.net Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how software is used *around* you -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
