The following is an excerpt from a review of Opera�s latest browser: <i>...One really, really neat touch: an icon called "transfers" that provides instant access to downloaded files. (When's the last time you downloaded a file, glossing over the little detail of watching where you put it, only to then have embark on a protracted hunt to find it? Not a problem with Opera.) ...</i>
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/43657.html I realize that including a browser with Chandler has been a debatable issue in the past on this thread. However, if Chandler eventually goes on to incorporate a browser module (which might perhaps be activated only on a user preferred set up option as someone here previously suggested) then it may be useful to deploy a feature similar to the latest Opera browser where there is an icon for accessing downloaded files. I would like to see this also taken a step further. If Chandler detects during installation a copy of OpenOffice on the user�s computer then Chandler could offer to install Chandler as an OpenOffice plug-in allowing for integration of some features between the two apps. One of the integrating features may be to allow for web files from the Chandler browser to be downloaded as XML files into OpenOffice. Another alternative but possibly more useful functionally for future development may be to add a conduit to OpenOffice�s current filing system so that any XML files stored in Chandler�s own native repository can then be opened when called for by an OpenOffice app. Hence, web files within Chandler�s browser can then be saved and then re-opened either in Chandler's browser or in OOo�s Writer app. In the later case, the file could then edited by the user as per any word processing document. We�ve already discussed a number of other potential integrating features between Chandler and OpenOffice such as the ability to fax, email, and print envelopes for OpenOffice documents using contact information stored in Chandler by having Chandler insert these menu bar options into OpenOffice�s Writer and Calc applications. Another potential integrating feature already discussed is to have a tab within Chandler�s Contact details window for listing the titles of all OOo documents that have been emailed, faxed, or snail mailed to that contact. However, another integrating feature I don�t recall having been discussed is possibility of integrating Chandler�s Memo app with OpenOffice�s Writer and Calc apps in a way that allows for group collaborative capabilities. The ability to allow for attaching Chandler�s Memo�s to specific areas within a Writer (or Calc) document would tend to allow for such group collaboration feature. For example, you could write up a document in Writer and then email it as an attachment to a colleague and then have them "stick on" some Memo�s containing editing comments to specific areas within the document and then email this back to the sender or group. The memo�s might be represented by icons within the document which could be clicked on (or hovered on) to open the memo. Whether clicking on the icon or hovering on the icon would open up the memo could be set by user preference. Regards, Selva __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
