On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 10:30 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote: > I think Symphony has done a great job with its UI work--that's what I'd most > like to see come under an open source license. > - tabbed document interface lets you open multiple files in one window > - a "dashboard" like the OOo / LibO splash screen, but you can open it from a > button that appears on the tab bar. This fits into the dashboard > functionality with potential integration into online services, as I have > envisioned and previously described: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Dashboard_Concept > - formatting and other tools appear in a vertical column on the side of the > main document window, which is one of the most-frequently requested UI > features I've seen come through the OOo and LibO communities
That would be interesting indeed. But according to one of the IBM engineers [*] they are only interested in contributing the C++ parts (and strangely seem to want to keep using their own in-house ClearCase setup for integration). The GUI (menu/toolbars and the tab windows) stuff is all implemented using Expeditor [**] a giant (proprietary) eclipse based java framework that embeds the C++ document views. So hopefully they are also prepared to free Expeditor. > Symphony also has some problems: > - it's very slow to open the application initially > - removed the Draw component > - I think (?) it's even more Java-dependent than OOo ever was Yes, it includes a JVM (IBM's proprietary J9 one) and most of the Eclipse framework for the GUI stuff. I have seen some questions on what exactly it is that is being offered, but nobody from IBM has replied with any specifics yet. Cheers, Mark [*] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201107.mbox/% 3coffe6eaa9d.2c929e08-on482578cd.000d5e79-482578cd.00116...@cn.ibm.com% 3E [**] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/ls/lxpd/ (a 800MB proprietary download...) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
