On 25.03.2013 03:36, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 07:04:53PM -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
@Ariel,
This is where they are in 3.4.1. Are you talking about a change for 4.0 or
something else?
Yes, by "now" I meant right-now, on trunk (it would be helpful if people
-reading this mailing list, not normal users- use the builds from the
build bots; it would help finding bugs/regressions early, not one week
before voting the release).
The ones quoted below were installed with the normal installation (which is why
they are under
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 3\). I did nothing to obtain them as
extensions.
You are right, these extensions were bundled with the installation; IMO
it was a non-sense from the beginning to develop these as extensions (at
least the presentation minimizer and the presenter screen, that have no
external dependencies).
I disagree and I don't see why this change should be a good thing.
Being an extension has several advantages:
- Updates can be provided independently of the AOO release cycle. This
is something that I have used several times in the past and always was
very glad that I had it.
- Easy control over the feature set that is shipped with OpenOffice.
This is something that we use extensively for dictionaries.
- Forces the developer to write clean code that does not use anything
outside the ODK.
I personally would like to see more code moved to extensions than the
other way round.
In this special case I would like to know how the user can turn of the
presenter screen. Did you add a button or option for this?. The
original idea was that activation/deactivation is done by
activating/installing or deactivating/uninstalling the extension. That
was somewhat undermined by product managers who shipped the extension
with OOo but hid the Presenter Console extension from the extension
manager. It was still possible to uninstall the extension but not via
the UI.
-Andre
Regards
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