On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 18:00, Alan Horkan wrote:
As soon as I tried the graph tool I immediately saw the potential for Gnome Office integration and the reuse of existing components if developers are interested. Embeddding Gnumeric graphs into Inkscape! Gnumeric can already be embedded using bonobo which unfortunately is not a cross platform technology but Gnumeric is evolving towards being crossplatform so Jody Goldberg (Gnumeric maintainer,) may be able to suggest a better way to do easily produce a portable graph tool dialog based on Gnumeric. The Gnumeric graphing engine is in a seperate library adn the graphs have an SVG backend, hopefully this would allow the graphs to be embedded and the resulting graphs could be embedded as SVG so that Gnumeric would only be needed for the creation not the viewing of graphs.
This is definitely a good candidate for GNOME Office integration. With regards to bonobo, afaik isn't bonobo being phased out of GNOME in general (or am I mishearing things)? There definitely needs to be an alternative approach that is cross platform.
Are you suggesting 'Gnumeric provides the SVG, Inkscape draws it'? That seems to be the logical way forward, making the Inkscape SVG canvas embeddeble in Gnumeric and AbiWord. Anyway, I digress. ;)
Great write up Alan.