On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:50:47 -0500 MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> mused:
We should probably look at how much we can/want to interoperate with OpenOffice too.
I'm working more or less on something similar for inkview. For now, inkview will be able to read a jar file with a slideshow sequence file in it. I'll start with a simple plain text file with the order of files in it (XML later on). This way windows users in particular can have more flexibility for their slideshows. I might be able to intergrate some simple sequence file editor in inkview too. There is some code for this already in CVS in the form of libinkjar. In the long term we could use this lib for having references to bitmap files in the jar file etc.
I'm not too familiar with openoffice file formats, but would we need to define our own format for this ? Is there maybe some gnome work underway for this in the form of a lib (I still need to look at libgsf) ?
SMIL would just be a part of all this, but for now I won't be bothering with it too much unless it's a very small subset of SMIL. Is there a lib for it perhaps ?
I'd like to hear some more comments about this.
Johan