Re: abigoffice plugin

>
> Hi,
>
> I have just updated the tarball at
> http://jean.brefort.free.fr/abigoffice.tar.bz2.
> Before commiting it (o HEAD only, of course) as is, I'd like it to be
> reviewed.
>

Hi jean,
        Sorry I don;t have time for a detailed reply now. This email is
just to let you know that I've read this and am VERY interested.

I'll finish this off later.

Cheers

Martin

> There are some drawbacks at the moment:
>
> * The abigochart plugin should be removed because it will be obsoleted.
>
> * There are problems associated with the file chooser; in abiword, only
> file names extensions can be used while the plugin uses mime types and
> gnome-vfs/goffice do not provide any easy way (even no way at all AFAIK)
> to retrieve extensions from mime types.
>
> * Resizing embedded objects must be rewritten. Some components should
> not be resized at all, some should be, but with restriction (a gnumeric
> sheet should only show whole cells), and some might be freely resized.
> May we can also have objects which can be resized, but with a fixed
> aspect ratio. Also, changing the height of a chart is broken at the
> moment as I already wrote. This si what I should fix now, but I could
> not find in the code where to start.
>
> * Portability should be addressed.
>
> * There is no stable component at the moment. I wrote one for GChemPaint
> (released with GChemPaint-0.7.0), but this one is not fully functionnal,
> and I did not commit the mozilla plugins component since this one has a
> lot of issues:
> - it crashes when a libXt base plugin is used (flashplayer), apparently,
> it is a libXt initialization problem, bur I could not figure out exactly
> how it should be done.
> - there is no simple and secure way to know which mime types are
> supported without preloading a lot of code.
> - I am not convinced it is worth the work since most mozilla plugins (if
> not all) will not print, which is critical for office applications.
>
> I am now going to start working on a gnumeric component, soonish ;-)
>
> Waiting for comments,
> Cheers,
> Jean
>
>
Received on Sun Dec 4 02:30:22 2005