Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Support for Versions, Full-Screen, and Resume in OS X Lion

[Laurence Jeloudev <ljeloudev@gmail.com>]

It would make sense.

Laurence Jeloudev
ljeloudev@gmail.com

On 05/08/2011, at 16:57, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 04/08/2011 18:32, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>> Larry Gusaas<larry.gusaas<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> When will LibreOffice add support for using the Versions,
>>> Full-Screen mode, and Resume features in Mac OS X version 10.7 Lion ?
>> When somebody writes the code. (And offers it for inclusion under the
>> license(s) we use.)
>>
>>> NeoOffice already supports these features in NeoOffice 3.2.1 Beta.
>> Which probably means that many volunteer developers who might have the
>> required skills and hardware have little interest in working on these
>> features as it would be duplication of work because of licensing
>> differences. Duplicating work just because of licensing is not fun.
>> At least that is how I feel...
>>
>> (NeoOffice is GPL, LibreOffice is LGPL, and new LibreOffice code is also MPL.)
>>
>> I did some inital experimentation with full-screen mode, and indeed,
>> supporting that to some extent is trivial. But exactly how Lion
>> full-screen mode should interact with/supplement/replace the
>> traditional OOo/LO full-screen mode, if at all, would be something
>> for the user experience experts to work on.
>>
>> Versioning, Auto-Save, Resume etc would require quite a lot of work,
>> I think. The OOo/LO code does not use the NSDocument class at all,
>> for instance. (In general, the OOo/LO MacOSX code is rather old-fashioned
>> in its use of MacOSX APIs.)
>
> Wouldnt that require us to migrate from the current 10.4 sdk which everything is built against to the latest 10.7 in regards to API's?
>
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