On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:17:58AM +0000, Charles Goodwin wrote:
A bulleted list of the overall goals is what I'm asking for. Something simple but something solid and easy to understand.
Eg: (and this is my hypothetical example, nothing official)
Gnumeric:
- fully foster plugin framework to libgoffice
- separate out and charting engine into library
At present I suspect everyone is blocking on this mythical library to split out. It needs
- The plugin system from gnumeric pulled down and cleaned up This includes the basic framework and a management dialog. It is necessary for the plotting engines which are plugins. eg bar/col is a plugin
- The value format engine (and probably the parser too). There is a simple interface to this in libgoffice already to hide the gnumeric code. The formater will be rewritten eventually to add more features (eg ###-#### formats) but that is not immediate nor will it effect anyone other than gnumeric.
- Pull down a few more convenience routines and widgets : the charset selector : file selector wrappers to go with the basic import/export framework
- write some portability wrappers for things like : open url : send email : display help So that gnome-office apps can behave consistently across platforms.