Re: [tdf-discuss] Clear separation between frontend and backend?

Lee Hyde wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> I'm just a humble end user, and frankly I have little-to-no knowledge of
> software development but I was wondering whether there is a clear
> separation between frontend and backend with LibreOffice. Such that it
> would make it easy to essentially 'slot-in' a replacement GUI.
>
> As I say, I'm not familiar with software development in general much
> less the specifics of OOo/LibO but it seems to the that one of the
> better ways to encourage innovation is to make it easy for people to
> 'hack' on individual modules and in particular the GUI (which is in dire
> need of modernisation and optimisation in my humble opinion). If
> 'hacking' a new GUI onto OOo/Lib (a'la IBM Lotus Symphony) at the moment
> is non-trivial it will hinder innovation in the form of specialist forks
> (which could be very useful for the mother project) and/or experimental
> UI (which are clearly intended to showcase innovative ideas to see if
> they could or should be merged into the mother project).
By specialist forks, does that mean like a special version for lawyers 
that does pleading forms, or a special version for screenwriters that 
has special enhancement for doing scripts, that sort of thing? 

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