Re: [tdf-discuss] News about the world outside LO :)

On Jul 14, 2011, at 6:17 PM, plino wrote:

> Surprise, surprise!
>
> IBM will be announcing tomorrow that it’s donating essentially all its IBM
> Lotus Symphony source code and resources to Apache’s OpenOffice project
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ibm-throws-its-source-code-and-support-behind-openoffice/9240

I think Symphony has done a great job with its UI work--that's what I'd most like to see come under 
an open source license.
- tabbed document interface lets you open multiple files in one window
- a "dashboard" like the OOo / LibO splash screen, but you can open it from a button that appears 
on the tab bar. This fits into the dashboard functionality with potential integration into online 
services, as I have envisioned and previously described: 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Dashboard_Concept
- formatting and other tools appear in a vertical column on the side of the main document window, 
which is one of the most-frequently requested UI features I've seen come through the OOo and LibO 
communities

Symphony also has some problems:
- it's very slow to open the application initially
- removed the Draw component
- I think (?) it's even more Java-dependent than OOo ever was

Rob Weir's full email is available online here, and his official announcement is this afternoon in 
Berlin (so it could be happening right now or has just happened): http://lwn.net/Articles/451635/

-Ben


Benjamin Horst
bhorst@mac.com
646-464-2314 (Eastern)
www.solidoffice.com


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