Re: rfc - renaming of OpenXML plugin

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 12:29:03PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Robert Staudinger wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:11:55 +0200
> > From: Robert Staudinger <robert.staudinger@gmail.com>
> > To: abiword-dev <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> > Subject: rfc - renaming of OpenXML plugin
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > we've been briefly discussing renaming the OpenXML plugin to something
> > else, you know, to get rid of subtle suggestions about openness and
> > xml of the current name.
> >
> > Obvious candidates are "ooxml", "oxml" and "oox". I'm proposing to use
> > "oxml" because most of the source files are prefixed "OXML_" already.
>
> Ignoring the implementation for a minute but in this case isn't the most
> important descriptive word for users "Microsoft" that followed by OOXML or
> DocX or any other of the practically meaningless acronyms might work just
> as well and be even clearer to users what it is for.
>
> Guess it depends where you are considering showing this newly revised
> description (I was thinking primarily of the Save dialog within Abiword).

Actually it depends. OpenOffice.org 3 will not really support OOXML but
the formats actually written by MS Office 2007, maybe afterwards, and if
there's demand.

I humbly think it should be "Microsoft Word 2010 and onwards (OOXML)" :)

Rui

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