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

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?

> --tml


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