Maintaining the independently-developed VCL GUI framework is an important concern. (Then there's UNO as a cross-platform COM derivative.)
The problem with much of the complexity of AOO, it seems to me, is that it is difficult to find improvements that can be achieved with progressions of small changes that have every- think still working each step of the way. Combined with the level of expertise required to know what changes are safe and consistent with the architecture of AOO, there is a big challenge for identifying any major moves. It would be great to know what insights there are for cultivating and sustaining the necessary expertise and maybe simplifying the learning curve and entrance requirements. Maybe just keep doing more of what is already being done in this area? -- replying below to -- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 15:46 To: OOo Apache Subject: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL Something I started thinking about and ta da...it's been proposed before -- http://markmail.org/message/gjvwudqnzejlzynz In my mind, we could use some assistance in the maintenance of the toolkit for our UI instead of continuing to do it ourselves. This said, I know next to nothing about QT and from what I've seen, the licensing is pretty complicated and might not work for the ASF -- http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/licensing.html#licenses-used-in-qt <orcmid> I finally noticed and followed the markmail link above. Of course, in January 2009, all of OpenOffice.org was under LGPL and the license was not a concern for the open-source side of things. The private commercial licensing of OO.o by Sun (e.g., to IBM) would have been a concern. The dependency on what continued to be a pretty closely-held project might have been a concern even then. If The Document Foundation had decided this was a good idea, the prospect of an ecumenical accommodation with LibreOffice would be even stranger today than it already is [;<). </orcmid> Main web site -- http://qt-project.org/ Thoughts? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out." -- Lou Reed --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
