From: "Keith N. McKenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Keith Bates wrote:
"Sammy Njuguna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2008/5/16 jonathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Drew Jensen wrote:
OOo is a brilliant office application. It can do better. The way ahead
is actually the way that Firefox has moved forward- plug-ins and
extensions. OOo is just starting to move down that track and i think as
extensions develop, many of these problems will be sorted out by third
party developers working out add-ons that will meet specific needs.
There is nothing in the proposal that would preclude TMP being done as
an extension.
A lot of people have put their two-cents in, so I will add mine.
What ever happened to the term "Modular programs"?
I am not talking about modules like C++ uses. I am talking
about the idea that you have a set of programs that are put
together to create a system of programs to do your tasks.
Why not have a "module" for wordprocessing, another for spreadsheets,
another for drawing, email, browser, etc.,etc......
All of these modules can share features, i.e.., email could use some of the
editing
features of the wordprocessor or the wordprocessor could send an email using
some of the email features.
If you do not like the wordprocessor module, you change it out for another
one. Same goes for the email, drawing, browser modules.
The connections between modules could be created, like stated above,
through extensions and add-ons. How much integration or sharing of
features could depend upon the module program and the extension that
connects them.
Firefox has an add-on that a menu add-on that goes to the OpenOffice.org
web site. Why cannot such an add-on not open a OOo process when the
file is not HTML. Have one that you can choose the software to use as the
viewer/editor when you open/download a document from the net. There
is one to decide if you want to view a PDF document within the browser,
using an add-on PDF reader, or to open a different external program to
view the PDF document, or thirdly, just save it for viewing later.
Can the good people who writes these add-ons, etc., write one that gives
you the ability to say:
Document view
types with
HTML - Firefox
PDF - view with "xyz" PDF reader
TXT -
DOC -
ODF -
you get to add the document types and the default viewer/editors
as you see fit.
You could have another add-on in the email that allows you to
choose what dictionary(s) you want to use for the spell checking, etc.,
thereby allowing you to choose one dictionary for all your
applications.
Also you can choose which email package you use to send the
large document you just finished in your wordprocessor.
Some of these ideas are partly covered my many different
extensions and add-ons used in Firefox or OpenOffice.org.
So
many people want OOo to integrate with an email package,
whether it is built by the OOo teams or they use someone
else's package.
Other people have lists of software package type they want to
see on OOo. The modular/extension way is the only option I
currently know of that would work.
First use the extension/add-on idea to integrate the various
software packages, then someday, design the software to be
use as either standalone of as a module of a suite of software.
Then you can choose what email that goes with what wordprocessor,
that goes with what spreadsheet, that goes with what browser,
etc., etc..
Tim L.
retired mainframe programmer,
a long winded and an avid believer in the open-source concept.
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