Re: [tdf-discuss] Co-working with Moz, etc (was:Do not support writing to OOXML format)

On 1 January 2011 18:43, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051387@gmail.com> wrote:

> Whats really held OOo and will hold LO back is the lack of an equivalent
> program such as outlook.


Why waste time and effort on this when there are other perfectly valid
alternatives? Evolution, Thunderbird for open source and Gmail on the web.
Web based mail is now mature and much easier to manage for anyone that moves
about. Gmail on an Android phone seems to me a far better solution than
being tied to the desktop. Effort going into new apps like a mail client
(even modifying and maintaining existing code) would be much better placed
in getting a mobile version of LO for smarphones or a web version. If not
the whole project could eventually become irrelevant.

There are one of three ways it can be done.
> 1) fork something like evolution which has all that done and integrate it
> into the LO suite
>
> 2) or install software that already exists in the open source arena.
>
> the problem with 2 is that it will greatly increase the download size,
> which
> would pose issues for people with slow bandwidth.
>
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Cia Watson <ciamarie@my180.net> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:16:06 -0000
> > Zaphod Feeblejocks <zaphodfj@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > > The Go-oo homepage also says "Going forward, the Go-oo project
> > > > > will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice." Does that mean
> > > > > that LibreOffice is driven by Novell too?
> >
> > > Ways to resolve this include:
> > > - Open (and easy to find) statistics on the numbers of current
> > > developers on LibO and their background.
> > > - More clear input from Google, etc., towards easy integration with
> > > Google Docs (in the way that the MSO integration with the web-based
> > > version of MSO will become something users expect).
> > > - Joint-branding with Thunderbird, Scribus, etc. There have been many
> > > posts on the OOo lists over the years asking "do you do a calendar?"
> > > or "Do you have a Publisher replacement".  No, we don't - but clearly
> > > promoting other open source projects and working with them to make
> > > life easy for people coming away from MSO helps all people.
> >
> > Since this looks a little like a wish-list, I thought I'd add mine. (Or
> > am I engaging in wishful thinking? :-) )
> >
> > I think it would be nice to be able to open AbiWord documents (.abw)
> > that render properly. LibO (and OO) Writer will open the file, but
> > there's a lot of coding visible, I'm guessing it's xml code.  I can
> > open odt files just fine in AbiWord (as well as doc and docx files)
> > and they render properly; but the reverse isn't true. Therefore, since I
> > have some documents already in abw format, I generally stick with
> > AbiWord for my few word-processing needs.
> >
> > Happy New Year to all!
> >
> > Cia W
> >
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