2011/4/28 Kohei Yoshida <kyosh...@novell.com>: > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 10:49 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote: >> One thing that we may wish to look into is using the same concept as the >> Chromium project does - pulling colors in from the user's native desktop >> environment, but not necessarily using those widgets. This will give >> LibreOffice the ability to render its own layout and even graphics options, >> but it will render them in a manner that allows for much better desktop >> integration without completely rejecting using our own layout/widget >> concepts... > > FYI, that's precisely what we do today. We do pull colors from the > native desktop, and we do even render widgets using native calls, but do > our own layouting, which isn't all that great and doesn't make the app > feel and behave like a native app (IMO). > > Kohei > > -- > Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc > <kyosh...@novell.com> > >
Indeed. Correct me if I'm wrong (my technical background in not deep enough) but I think the problem is that OOo/LibO is using some archaic (and arcane) set of libraries to draw its UI called VCL, that no one else use. As a matter of fact, OOo/LibO is NOT a GTK app, but a VCL app that can connect to GTK or Qt libraries through "VCL plugins".(1) Switching to a more modern set of libraries will easy the task of desktop integration preserving at the same time its own layout. But as always, writing the word "switching" is a lot easier that the switch itself. (1) Chakra project recently published a LibO version 100% GTK free: http://chakra-project.org/news/index.php?/archives/175-LibreOffice-available-for-testing-Be-free.html Cheers Ricardo -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
