Hello, I've typed some notes during our meeting at guad3c just before the AbiWord talk. I hope they can be used to make a draft minute, or something close alike. This document does not contain exact phrases and may contain factual mistakes or misinterpretations. Let's get a Gnome Office. Hugs, rms -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
Jody, Jon, Dom, SamTh, Cuenca, Ken, ??, Hub, Andrew, Frank, Uraeus, Rui
Jody:
- The 'office' word is very important to visibility
- Layers that can be worked out
We should release a gnome-office 1.0 (gnumeric 1.x, abiword 1.x, etc)
Even if not too integrated, it will carry a lot of users.
Jon:
- gnomeoffice has to have guppi because gnumeric and gnucash depend on it
All:
Potential Gnome Office apps:
gnumeric
abiword
dia
sodipodi
ask around for more
Jody:
- gtk? for a future...
- present: advantages from using glib (unlimited undo redo, and other
cool stuff)
- use more shared elements (like a shared zippy file), embbeding stuff
Dom:
- there's zippios (koffice and open office folks got really happy about it --
we too)
Jody:
- escher drawings... how? There's no reasonable way to do it xp.
what canvas can be used?
- there should be a
- worries with open office:
* a lot of people use it.
* star office is charged for money, but if there's money coming, there
going to be accounting, and an year or two from now, when sun may be
worried for cash it could happen that they very well stop supporting it.
SamTh:
- reasons to use gtk in other platforms: pango -- it is really good
Jody:
- pango is planned to provide printing support (Dom: fabulous... I'd even help
with that)
- I will need to hack on gnome-print
SamTh:
- talked with Keith Packard and we can solve our fonts problem by "embedding
fonts -- rms I understood this right?"
Jody:
- despair: if we do not share more code, when (if) oo dies, we'll have to
climb the hill again
- common code for undo redo, emf, wmf, plugins, etc...
- will check zippios out
- will clean up io abstraction
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