Re: [Libreoffice] Calc - a better design ...

2011-10-20 Thread Noel Grandin
Hi Sounds like a good idea would be to create a master tracking bug in bugzilla around this plan, then split off the different changes into blocking sub-bugs, and mark some of the easier ones so that other people can start doing them. Regards, Noel. Michael Meeks wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > On Thu,

Re: [Libreoffice] Calc - a better design ...

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Kevin, On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 02:00 -0400, Kevin Hunter wrote: > I'm hesitant to ask this because I cannot personally promise time toward > LO (only on an as-can basis, which is dismally small ATM), but hey, you > can easily so no. :-) You mention "really need[ing] a whiteboard" to > elabor

Re: [Libreoffice] Calc - a better design ...

2011-10-19 Thread Kevin Hunter
Hi Michael, I'm hesitant to ask this because I cannot personally promise time toward LO (only on an as-can basis, which is dismally small ATM), but hey, you can easily so no. :-) You mention "really need[ing] a whiteboard" to elaborate properly. I submit that putting your thoughts together,

Re: [Libreoffice] Calc - a better design ...

2011-07-28 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Kevin, On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 01:07 -0400, Kevin Hunter wrote: > Actually, as text it is convincing. Hah ;-) there is a lot more, around dependencies. You'd be surprised at how much time + space is spent in a spreadsheet making sure we only re-calculate the right pieces. > So my origi

Re: [Libreoffice] Calc - a better design ...

2011-07-27 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 9:42am -0400 Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Michael Meeks wrote: Anyhow - as text, this is not terribly convincing; drawing on a whiteboard would be more so, and with lots of working code - even more so ;-) I keep hoping to have time to play with ixion with Kohei in this regard. Actually, as text it is c

[Libreoffice] Calc - a better design ...

2011-07-27 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Kevin, On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 06:56 -0400, Kevin Hunter wrote: > At 6:07am -0400 Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Michael Meeks wrote: > > but IMHO -the- fundamental design problem with calc, is something > > quite banal - the concept that a spreadsheet is built from cells: > > without breaking that basic misc