[openbeos] Re: office suite(s)
- From: Marco Zanon <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 22:11:30 +0100
> I can't copy and paste text back and forth,
> they're sluggish to respond, the key shortcuts don't work as I
> expect...
yes, that all depends from the biggest problem Linux has:
fragmentation,
which, in this case, means:" when I port an application, which
toolkit should I rely on?" one uses gtk, another qt, and so
there's no consistency, plus a lot of other problems...
(the problem also belongs to other areas, like creating device
drivers: every class has its own method for dealing with drivers,
and also there are exceptions inside single classes!)
that's why I started looking to OpenBeOS: it is a very well
organized project, and people here understood the importance of
avoiding fragmentation (while Linux people tend to like it, for
the sake of choice :)
> What I'm getting at is that I think if OBOS wants to
> be a good GUI experience, it should rely on native programs and
> not ported GUIs.
maybe wxWindows will make a good job for us :)
it is a set of libraries which rely on native toolkits, so it
could use OpenBeOS' one... :)
(btw, OBOS should have sizer-based widget positioning, but Michael
Phipps told me that one of the next releases could have them :)
> Plus, OpenOffice just doesn't have the uniqueness I expect from
> Be. :)
I asked the KOffice people, but porting a program strongly based
on Qt and KDE becomes impossible;
AbiWord is only a word processor, and it would take years to build
the spreadsheet, presentation and database modules;
GoBeProductive will cease to exist, and their products will change
name and will be sold for Windows and Linux, but no BeOS...
OpenOffice is the only alternative for the moment, although I
don't like its personal user interface and its weight - but we
must use some office suite to attract people to OBOS...
developing some BeSuite sounds nice, but it would take a lot of
years and developers: KOffice was born in 1998 and has about 50
people working on interfaces, inners and filters, and it began
being really usable only one year ago...
bye :)
p.s.: does OBOS/BeOS support anything like OLE, Bonobo or KParts,
i.e.: embedding other programs' components?
Marco Zanon [http://www.marcozanon.com]
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