Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hello, > > I am a long-term openoffice user and to some degree a bit of gui > performance fanatic. > I dislike UIs which show tearing effects and don't perform well and > just very few toolkits really make me happy performance-feeling whise. > I just can speak for OOo running on Linux, which shows some ugliness > when working with menus and some other small performance glitches. > > I would like to work on it in my vacation, however does it still make > sence to work on the currently used toolkit (vcl or however its > called)? I read many articles that OOo will move to a self-written > abstraction layer which uses underlaying widgets. > In which timeframe will this happen, or is this still planned at all.
VCL will still be our technology base for the GUI in the forseeable future as we don't expect to get enough developers to rewrite all the existing UI code in a short time frame, so working on improvements for VCL still makes a lot of sense. The only UI or graphics component in OOo that does not use VCL currently is the presentation engine (AFAIK). ATM we are extending the UNO API layer above VCL to enable the development of more feature rich components and Add-Ons that don't link against VCL and so can be implemented and deployed independently from our release and development cycles, but this layer still is on top of VCL. Wether we will replace the implementation of this API toolkit later on is still object of discussion but IMHO will not happen soon. If you are interested in improving VCL please join the dev@gsl.openoffice.org mailing list. The developers over there will be glad to get some help, I'm sure. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
