[odf-discuss] News on MS pluggin

[Thomas Zander]

Hi marbux.
I rather enjoyed reading that email. Thanks!

On Monday 16 October 2006 23:21, marbux wrote:
> > This is exactly what KOffice2 is focussing on. To have a lot better system
> > then any other suite out there for integrating office components in other
> > office applications. And I'm pretty sure it will not be limited to just
> > embedding in office apps. Embedding the text component in email apps or
> > IM apps certainly has value as well.
> >
> > I won't go into details as its too far off topic, but I'm sure you'll be
> > happily surprised when KOffice2 comes out and the months that follow
> > where people start to build on top of the component model we created.
>
> I'm interested in learning more and maybe in participating. Got a starter
> link or two? I feel like there's no alternative to OOo for our project over
> the short term because of its feature set, but it's definitely not a
> platform we should build on over the longer term.

http://www.koffice.org
http://dot.kde.org/1149518002/
Follow the 'flake' link there for some more impressions.

and a rather old blog of mine that shows the non-monolithic nature of our 
approach best; http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2170
In KOffice even the text shape is a plugin (without which KWord would be 
pretty useless ;)

-- 
Thomas Zander
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