Hi Herbert, It is very nice to hear that Sun is again getting active with the Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org. Even though many years have passed, there are still many deep places in OpenOffice.org that need the help from the great OOo Wizards like you and others :)
Since Sun has a big influence in decisions related to OpenOffice.org, I would be very interested in hearing, what is your individual (or collective) opinion on one of the main goals of Mac OS X port: "User Interface respecting Aqua Human Interface Guidelines"? Personally to me, this means creating a version of OpenOffice.org that in _some_ _cases_ will not be "documentation compatible" with other ports (Win, Linux). For a concrete example, Mac OS X system reserves Function keys (F1-F12) for system use and they are thus not available to OOo. There are also other standard system commands that overlap OOo. Beginning of the work is here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Porting_-_Keyboard_Shortcuts On a higher level example, should the Google SOC2007 OOo project about XML UI succeed, will it be ok for Mac OS X port to diverge in the OOo UI to meet the high quality standards that Aqua HIG recommends and Mac OS X users require? Best Regards, Mox Soini (an individual who does not prefer lipstick-on-a-pig approaches) http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/63 http://www.i-leadonline.com/images/LipstickonaPigCollage.jpg On 5/3/07, H Duerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As you probably already read in Jim's, Simon's and Philipp's blog entries Sun Microsystems starts to support the Mac OS X Aqua port, where the Mac community of the OpenOffice.org project already did a lot of amazing work. Philipp Lohmann and me will get involved in this effort. My name is Herbert Duerr. In the last six years I worked on OpenOffice/StarOffice at Sun in Hamburg, Germany. Mainly in the platform technology and graphics groups on things like fonts, graphics, performance, internationalization, etc. Before this I worked several years at IBM on almost everything that is storage related: From the smallest parts of hard-disks to the largest storage system for enterprise customers. From product integration, performance analysis, last level support for enterprise customers, production tool development and automated quality measurements (especially development of software analysis of microscopic images). Though my background is in electronic engineering (microelectronics) I was mostly in software over all these years. I developed commercially for Windows, Solaris, Linux, OS/2, DOS, TOS (Atari-ST) and even for MVS. In my spare time I also developed on Win-CE and a bit on OS-X. I'm really happy about this new task. From a technology standpoint of course and for an important social reason: A lot of people I really appreciate are addicted to the Mac... Enough talking from my side, I better get down and dirty with coding. I'd like to pick up the ATSU integration in VCL that I helped with a long while ago. -- Herbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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