Hello, all! Sorry about this sooo late reply - I didn't give up, I'm just busy but LO for Honeycomb is one of my top priorities now.
I'll answer inline. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 05:57, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@novell.com>wrote: > Hi Tor, > > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 23:59 -0600, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > Or 2) Adapt the LibreOffice build mechanism to work with > > cross-compilation. > .. > > gbuild work hopefully should make it easier. Interestingly, enabling > > cross-compilation will benefit LO builds for Windows hugely... > > Right - so, as one precursor we really want to help with moving > ~everything to gnumake so we only have to do the heavy lifting in one > place. Of course, that has a great knock-on effect of improving our > build speed, and as a side-effect having a great synergy with our > end-goal of moving to cross-compiling the Windows builds. > I didn't know about this problem. I don't have much experience in cross-compilation (I thought LO had already take care of it) but* *I'll ask some friends for help. > > > What is interesting in this discussion here and earlier on the > > "discuss" list is that nobody seems to ponder how the user interface > > of (a subset of) LibreOffice running on a tablet/touch device should > > look and work. Surely designing that is equally hard as overcoming > > technical build hurdles or restructuring what gets built. > > This is of course an excellent point :-) However, it is clear that > with > lots of complementary, baby-steps in the right direction, we will get > somewhere useful in the end. > This is what I have in mind. Develop a new interface for tablets and commiting it for a public repository (probably Github) so I can get external help and feedback. "Release early, release often" > > > Or do you really expect people to want to use the normal LibreOffice > > GUI with hierarchical menus and other stuff from a desktop style GUI > > on a touch device? > > Not in the end-game; but as a demo to generate lots of interest, > and > attract more developers to help re-work the chrome: I think this would > be a wonderful first-step. > Actually I think that today's UI can't be used on a tablet for 2 reasons: 1. It isn't prepared for this 2. Would be completely visually unintegrated with the other apps Maybe making it work could generate interest but I wonder if the efford would worth it. I really don't know... I'll probably be sure after getting the cross-compilation work! > > ATB, > > Michael. > > -- > michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot > > Michael, thank you very much for your orientation. Without it I would be lost. I've subscribed to the dev list, so I can easily comunicate with others. Jonathan, let's get our hands dirty and make it work! Best regards! -- Rodrigo http://www.rodrigocarvalho.blog.br ------------------------------------ Participe do I Hack'n Rio <http://hacknrio.org/> ------------------------------------
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