Re: Extending the GNOME system (ideal)

[Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au>]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Elliot Lee wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Alan wrote:
> 
> > Disclaimer: While I am a progammer, I'm not a GNOME/bonobo programmer, so some
> > things here might simply not be possible.  Also, I'm working off of a discussion
> > that occured in a car first thing in the morning, so I might be talking out of
> > my butt :)
> > 
> > Anyway, the discussion went something like this.  Gnumeric does a good job of
> > using various bonobo components to create text, graphs, do spell checking, and
> > so on.  Why not make an entire app out of that.
> 
> [snippage]
> 
> Nautilus pretty much does this type of thing. It doesn't take care of one
> compound document with a bunch of objects inside, but that is really
> impossible to do in a generic manner. The "MS Word inside MSIE" example
> would work fine with Nautilus, though.
> 

We hope that we can put AbiWord inside Nautilus (and evolution for that
matter) to do this. We will certainly try anyway. It would be nice to get
this done for 1.4 extras. We will try.

Cheers

Martin Sevior