Hi Mathias, you wrote: > I think that your blog is a little bit unfair and so I posted a comment. > Sorry if it came across like that - I did not mention your name there, as this was not meant as a personal attack, but I was rather challenging this (IMO) wide-spread mind-set the quote so nicely captured.
> Or more precicely: our problems are grouped objects and form controls > that don't support the idea of a 1:n relation between core and layout > properly. But we haven't given up. Would be nice to get some support of > people in the know (perhaps you?). > Although my personal focus would be more on the gsl side of things, I wouldn't rule out the possibility ;) Any more details (maybe off-list)? > I would be glad to see my apprehension unjustified. I don't want my > statement be understood as a "I never would do that because the users > won't like it", more like a "before I will do that I must have the > impression that it can be accepted by the users". > Nah. The dilemma I was referring to is that the users will _not_ accept it this year, but two or three years down the road, they'll flock over to those other offerings nevertheless, _despite_ the fact that those are worse than OOo on that metric - because their value network has changed, i.e. all of a sudden the relative importance of e.g. collaboration or ease of use & backward compatibility has changed. > So while this statement isn't a description of the status quo only, it > also isn't a vision. It's just "loud thinking" about how I could > implement my vision. As promised elsewhere in this thread I will present > them (or the more general part of it) soon. > Looking forward, really. :) Cheers, -- Thorsten --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
