On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 22:08 +0300, Quim Gil wrote: > Why don't we do the opposite: close officially GNOME Office and keep > working on the interoperability and integration between GNOME > applications.
I think we're in rough agreement; whether or not there is an official "GNOME Office", we're saying that there ought to be a broad idea of how office-type tools can work together in GNOME rather than a narrow idea of a single suite with a single set of applications. What users probably care more about is that their applications can read their files (so, I think OpenDocument is important, though users might not realise that), and that basic stuff that Ken mentioned works: open/save dialogs are all consistent, printing is consistent, and the UI fits with GNOME. But I think we also need to keep sight of the fact that office-type apps are very important to many users, especially those using GNOME for work. They are the main day-to-day productivity tools, and I think GNOME could do a lot better job integrating them. From a marketing point of view, I think we would lose an important constituency (those making purchasing decisions, etc.) if we didn't highlight GNOME as being excellent for Office tasks: whether or not that means having a GNOME Office, I'm not sure, but I wouldn't want to lose that concept completely. Things like being able to link e-mails from Evo into tomboy are just scratching the surface, we should be able to link all our data in there if we like (e.g., having a note for a project, and links to relevant e-mails, documents, etc.). GNOME's role in that kind of desktop is one primarily of ensuring apps talk to each other and work in concert, IMHO. I think we can still communicate something meaningful at that level which primarily applies to productivity apps. Cheers, Alex. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list