Hi, I'm a developer with Zotero. We currently distribute a LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org plugin for our software that provides rich citation functionality in OpenOffice/LibreOffice/NeoOffice, as well as plugins for Word for Mac and Word for Windows.
I've read through the previous thread on changes to the toolbar in 4.0 (http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201302.mbox/%3C51195E5E.3000004%40laposte.net%3E), but I'd like to emphasize that the changes to toolbar functionality in AOO 4 are quite problematic for us, not because the change to Addons.xcu is hard, but because having a separate extension for AOO 4 is somewhat of a nightmare from a support and distribution perspective. To give some background, users don't install our extension manually. Instead, it is installed either by an optional Firefox extension (in Zotero for Firefox) or automatically when our software is opened (in Zotero Standalone). At the moment, the same extension works with NeoOffice 3.0+, OpenOffice.org 3.0-3.3, AOO 3.4, LibreOffice 3.4-4.1. Unless there's a way to create a single extension that works with AOO 4 and LibreOffice or earlier versions of OOo, supporting AOO 4 would appear to require the following changes: 1. Adapt the extension to work with Apache OpenOffice. This is actually the easiest part. 2. Bundle two extensions with the LibreOffice plugin and Zotero Standalone (2MB more download size) or modify the extension locally on install to use a separate Addons.xcu file for AOO 4. 3. Detect AOO 4 and install a different extension there than we do in LibreOffice, AOO 3.4, and OOo. 4. Find a way to make the extension fix itself when AOO is upgraded (is this possible?), or at least present a dialog telling the user to reinstall the extension from within Zotero. While I realize that this is somewhat late in your release process, it would make us much happier if AOO 4 could use an alternative Addons.xcu file (Addons4.xcu?) if it exists. That way we wouldn't have to distribute multiple extensions, and our toolbar wouldn't break for our users when they upgrade to AOO 4. If this isn't a possibility, perhaps someone has a better suggestion for how we should handle this? Thanks, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
