Re: [ACTION NEEDED] Declare what you want to make incompatible [was Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"]

2012-08-02 Thread Jan Holesovsky
On 2012-07-26 at 17:50 +0200, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > Please, everyone who wants to do an incompatible change, and will work > on it, move it in the 'LibreOffice4' wiki page to the following section, > together with your name: > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice4#Stuff

[ACTION NEEDED] Declare what you want to make incompatible [was Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"]

2012-07-26 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi, On 2012-07-20 at 17:20 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote: > So, as long as we decide to do c) when switching to LO4 (which AFAIK we plan > to do, even if c) alone is not the reason), the page first needs to be > cleaned up to contain only items that actually do have something to do with > LibreOff

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-26 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 07/20/2012 05:20 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote: Option c) can mean either stopping supporting some file formats, or breaking API/ABI compatibility. For file formats we want to do this with binfilter AFAIK, nothing else, and this is a lot like b) as well in that it's just done and that's it. Breaking

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 19:59 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote: > By the way, could somebody please confirm this or list the things where we > do > need to care about stability to the outside world? I know ure/source/README > has a list of libraries, but this is not only about libraries. In the

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Thorsten, On Friday, 2012-07-20 19:03:41 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > Lubos Lunak wrote: > > Hmm. That makes it something we should take into consideration then, but > > that > > consideration may be quickly over with saying that it's internal API and as > > such we don't care about pe

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Lubos Lunak
On Friday 20 of July 2012, Lubos Lunak wrote: > And after all this is done, it should be easier to actually talk about > LO4, because we'll know what the talk is actually about. As for the > technical details (i.e. c) ), we'll need to decide how to handle the > breakages it'll cause for extensions

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Lubos Lunak
On Friday 20 of July 2012, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > Lubos Lunak wrote: > > Hmm. That makes it something we should take into consideration then, but > > that consideration may be quickly over with saying that it's internal API > > and as such we don't care about people who abuse it. > > There's mo

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Lubos Lunak
On Friday 20 of July 2012, Lubos Lunak wrote: > On Friday 20 of July 2012, Michael Meeks wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 17:20 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote: > > > Now, if you look at > > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice4 , a lot of > > > the stuff there does not belong to

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On 07/20/2012 12:50 PM, Lubos Lunak wrote: - "de-UNO-ize the ODF import and export filters." is a purely internal matter that does not affect anything outside of LO core (or am I wrong here?) that depends on whether crazy people have tried to hook into / use those interfaces from their

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Lubos Lunak wrote: > Hmm. That makes it something we should take into consideration then, but > that > consideration may be quickly over with saying that it's internal API and as > such we don't care about people who abuse it. > There's more nuance required here I think. Substantial use of "un

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread David Tardon
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 06:33:20PM +0200, john malc wrote: > Hi, > I have some ideas : >3. kick Draw and Math-parts out of LO. Either make it as plugin or just >kill it. 1) nobody uses it (Math> Latex; Draw > photoshop, corel, gimp >etc.); Can we see the numbers, please? > 2) installe

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Thorsten Behrens
john malc wrote: > I have some ideas : > Again the reminder that ideas or discussions _without_ any intention to work on them *in the code*, are off-topic here. Please move them to disc...@documentfoundation.org (subscribe via email to discuss+subscr...@documentfoundation.org). Thanks for keeping

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Lubos Lunak
On Friday 20 of July 2012, Michael Meeks wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 17:20 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote: > > Now, if you look at > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice4 , a lot of > > the stuff there does not belong to the page at all, as it has absolutely > > nothing to do

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Lubos Lunak
On Friday 20 of July 2012, john malc wrote: > Hi, > I have some ideas : > >1. *rewrite whole LO* (writer, base etc.) from scratch, which would make >all documents unable to open in 3.x. This is very important task, mainly >because of MS Office and the future of LO. The whole thing with

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 06:33:20PM +0200, john malc wrote: >1. *rewrite whole LO* I know, it's Friday, but still... ;-) Some reading: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog69.html ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesk

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Michael Stahl
On 20/07/12 18:27, Randolph D. wrote: > ok michael, you wrote friendly, so all ideas given. but I wounder why > Lubos is allowed to write about a marketing brainstorming :-) Lubos writes about _what_? On 20/07/12 17:20, Lubos Lunak wrote: > a) for marketing reasons [...] > > As a) is not techni

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread john malc
Hi, I have some ideas : 1. *rewrite whole LO* (writer, base etc.) from scratch, which would make all documents unable to open in 3.x. This is very important task, mainly because of MS Office and the future of LO. The whole thing with plugins should be same as with documents. 2. make

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 17:20 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote: > Now, if you look at > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/LibreOffice4 , a lot of the > stuff there does not belong to the page at all, as it has absolutely nothing > to do with any of the above: Can you edit the page

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Randolph D.
ok michael, you wrote friendly, so all ideas given. but I wounder why Lubos is allowed to write about a marketing brainstorming :-) 2012/7/20 Michael Meeks : ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mail

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Randolph, On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 17:29 +0200, Randolph D. wrote: > For me the 4 Version would be different from other versions, if the > office suite includes a browser and a messenger This is a developer list. Please move this suggestion to the discuss list. It is fine to have vision &

Re: Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Randolph D.
2012/7/20 Lubos Lunak : > On Thursday 19 of July 2012, Michael Meeks wrote: >> * 4.0 - when to call it that ? (Kendy) > So for that, we should first decide > on what "LibreOffice4" will mean. > > Summary: > - it needs to be said what we expect from "LibreOffice4" > - the wiki page with technical t

Changes needed for "LibreOffice 4"

2012-07-20 Thread Lubos Lunak
On Thursday 19 of July 2012, Michael Meeks wrote: > * 4.0 - when to call it that ? (Kendy) > + extension downloads > + some quite popular PDF import 3m downloads > + mysql - 330k > + spellcheck dicts - 300k > + renaming com::sun::star a problem