Some minor additional comments in line below. --- selva r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The following is an excerpt from a review of Operas > 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 users 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 > OpenOffices current filing system so that any XML > files stored in Chandlers own native repository can > then be opened when called for by an OpenOffice app. > > Hence, web files within Chandlers browser can then > be > saved and then re-opened either in Chandler's > browser > or in OOos Writer app. In the later case, the file > could then edited by the user as per any word > processing document. > > Weve 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 OpenOffices Writer and Calc > applications. Another potential integrating feature > already discussed is to have a tab within Chandlers > 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 dont recall > having been discussed is possibility of integrating > Chandlers Memo app with OpenOffices Writer and > Calc > apps in a way that allows for group collaborative > capabilities. The ability to allow for attaching > Chandlers Memos 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 Memos containing editing comments to > specific areas within the document and then email > this > back to the sender or group. The memos 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. > A menu button might also be added to display or hide all memo's attached to an OOo document at once. To promote even further integration between the PIM and the word processor, it may also be useful to be able to capture thoughts initially as memo's and then sort them out using the cactus tree filing mechanism similar to the TuxCards application described here previously. Hence, bullet lists and To Do lists could then be called for when needed within the memo's of cactus tree. Selected memo's could additionally be linked to the Datebook app in a sort of "third dimension" so that time dependent cactus tree items are able to be viewed along the time axis as well from within the Datebook app. Finally, by say right clicking on the memo window's title bar, we might be able to allow the user the option to convert the memo into an OOo document for more detailed word processing document when the need arises. Hence, users could first capture their thoughts on the run using the Memo app and a cactus tree filing system and then sit down later on to develop specific memo's into more elaboarate OOo Writer documents or formal letters when neccessary. In addition to right clicking the title bar, a memo might also be converted into a Writer doc by using the floating (dockable) button bar for launching Chandler's subapplications as discussed previously. If OOo's Writer app was included in the button bar, the user might be allowed to drag the title bar of a displayed memo onto the Writer button and this could automatically reopoen the memo within a new Writer document. Again, this type of integration with Writer does not neccessarily imply that OOo and Chandler development needs to be closely dovetailed in the future. Rather, a conduit may be added to OOo's API system so that Chandler's repository can be accessed by Writer if desired by the user. Again, I am not a developer. However, I would think that this type of conduit system for sharing files between separate apps could be designed to opperate seamlessly since several apps already do this. For example, Palm handheld users are first asked during installation whether they would like to synch their handheld's PIM files with Palm Desktop or MS Outlook on their desktop. Likewise, if OOo is detected on the users hard disk during installation, Chandler might query the user whether they would like Writer to access Chandler's repository by default and install Chandler as sort of a plug-in to OOo. > 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 > __________________________________________________ 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
