Chad Smith wrote:
On 10/24/05, David Teague(T-bird acct) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(I assure you that OO.o is missing ONLY a grammar checker, and that is
being worked on)
And an email client, and a Desktop Publisher, and templates, and macros, and
clipart....
-Chad Smith
Why does OpenOffice.org require an email client? There are plenty of
other email clients out there that work perfectly well.
If it is about that magical word "Integration", then perhaps the
OpenOffice.org gurus could whip up an open ended access point to
OpenOffice.org that would allow any actively being developed email
clients to "Plug-In" and integrate with the office suite.
Then the complaint there would be that OpenOffice.org doesn't have
an email server like Exchange, am I right?
I could see OpenOffice.org one day adding a "Deskopt Publisher",
similar to MS Publisher. I have yet to personally discover a regular
everyday business need for a "Desktop Publisher" software. Of course, I
am not in advertising or marketing. So, that might well explain it.
I agree that OpenOffice.org could use templates. Perhaps those of us
on this very mailing list could start whipping up templates, vette them
on this or another list specific to OpenOffice.org Templates and then
submit those to a repository of templates. Then a later update to
OpenOffice.org 2.0 could add a "Download Templates as you Need" feature
or better yet, have a seperate small installable executable that can be
used to install a regularly updated Template library.
The same thing could be done with Clipart. Of course, both Clipart
and Templates would need to be carefully looked over in order to make
certain that nobody is infringing by simply copying already existing
template and Clipart libraries. This might be better suited for a
Creative Commons like organization to work on.
As for Macros, isn't that simply based off of VisualBASIC in MS
Office? Doesn't OpenOffice.org use something born from "StarBASIC" and
or a Java Interface for the same basic feature? (Without all the
inherent danger in what I see as the crummy MS implementation.)
-Rob
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