--- Dom Lachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 12:13, Kenneth Rohde > Christiansen wrote: > > Wouldn't it be an idea to discuss this metadata > support with the other > > Gnome Office developers, like the Gnumeric ones, > so we don't end up with > > very different systems? > > It would be an idea to do this. I don't know if it > would be a very > successful one, but I'll talk with Jody about it. > > Gnumeric's properties dialog is a (poor) clone of > the MSWord/EXcel > dialog and only supports a subset of the > MSWord/Excel properties. I've > just made our dialog tabbed & pretty :) Since I was > able to map MSWord's > properties back to the Dublin Core set pretty > easily, I imagine that > Gnumeric will be able to too (since they are the > same set of props...). > At minimum, we should share the same dialog. As for > representation in > the file format, well, that is another story and not > all that important.
I wonder if it will be useful to set up a metabug or some similar system to keep track of ideas regarding keeping AbiWord and Gnome Office on some kind of interoperability improvement path? Just somewhere we can put ideas like this that we hope to implement so we don't forget them. Andrew Dunbar. > Dom > > ATTACHMENT part 1.2 image/png name=metadata_dlg.png > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
