Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Binary standardisation is bad and I don't expect it to get any better > because it rubs too many people the wrong way. Achieving it would > drastically slow down growth rate anyway (ie the LSB is pretty much a dead > end few people care about)
I will not argue against that - we are far OT meanwhile and I assume you know this much better than I. > For the template location problem I'd say getting KDE, OO.o and Gnome > Office at the same table (probably a freedesktop.org one) should be > sufficient to hammer a spec quickly (basically where should they be > dropped in /usr/share) Yes, that sounds like a good start. If we can find common directories for all relevant Linux distros and all apps supporting the OASIS format, that would be great! > Then you add a tunable in the apps to allow specifying template locations, > put the freedesktop.org value there, and 85% of your users will never need > to change it (I say 85% because some people mainly corporate admins find > bliss in ignoring common standards and getting paid to fix the mess > afterwards) :-) 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]
