Le 17/04/12 18:14, Andreas Säger a écrit : Hi all,
> > The easiest improvements in my honest opinion: > - Wipe out the .odb container all together and get back to the > configuration of database access in OOo 1. Back to external databases > with configuration data in configuration files, forms and reports in > stand-alone office documents. More speed more safety, security, > accessibility and transparency. People who do not understand how to > connect separated software tools do not understand the .odb container > neither (as we can read in all the mail merge topics). > - Remove all the half done wizards. Do not improve them. Remove! No > database developer nor interface designer needs all this stinky rubbish. > There are graphical tools to compose forms and reports within office > documents. There is SQL for all the rest, including all the things we > can not do in the current graphical interface. There are plenty of SQL > editors to produce valid SQL for various databases. SQL text can be > pasted into any database configuration. > - Add native database queries, so the current "direct SQL mode" returns > editable row sets and the (useless or even harmful) graphical query > designer can be removed as well. > - Having removed all the wizards (they are Java components) without > losing any functionality at all, extensions could substitute .odb > packages. When you open the extension, the database gets installed > _permanently_ (rather than _temporarily_ like the .odb) into the > configuration tree together with the forms and reports documents. The > database will be registered and all the tables, queries, forms and > reports are accessible form the data source window, hyperlinks and > desktop links just like it used to be in OOo 1. > > Ah, nostalgia those were halcyon days ;-) +1 (not that that means anything in our "user land". Unfortunately, as I was told quite a while ago either on the dev-list or IRC dev channel, or bugzilla, "no-one wants to go back to 10 year old technology", i.e. the LO devs are not interested in undoing what Sun it its infinite wisdom thought would be a good idea when it "re-invented OOo-Base", so we are stuck with what we have until someone steps up and decides to either unravel it all or improve it - a mammoth task by anyone's standards. Alex -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
