On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> >> wrote: >> >> > I also use KDE, however, most of the integration has to do with the >> distro. >> > Since distros dont ship AOO, the options are very integrated with LO. >> > >> > Dolphin/Konqueror default the *.odt to LO. >> > >> >> Well, Ok, but you can change these default mime types. >> > > Just like we do automatically for Windows, but offer no solution on > Linux. Users need to do it manually. > > http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/images/Download_2_4_1_html_5bc7f92d.png > > > >> >> >> > >> > AOO also integrates with Thunderbird but doesn't really show an option >> for >> > Kmail. Or their latest Kolab, OwnCloud system. >> > >> >> >> I'm having some issues myself configuring e-mail to work with AOO 4.0.1 at >> this point. I use KDE but have never used Kmail. No details until I can >> figure out more what the problem could be. >> > > There is also Akonadi which is the underlining resource manager for > KDE-PIM. Not sure to what degree of integration with KMail "services" is > dependable of it. I know in the past Sun people worked with Mozilla to > integrate some of the Calendar/Mail services with OpenOffice under the > Lightning project. > > http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/#Calendar_and_Email_Client_.28Mozilla_Thunderbird_and_Lightning.29 > > Evolution is practically death, but both Kolab/Akonadi are very well alive > under the KDE layer. > Here are two examples of integration from KDE into Mozilla, one for KWallet replacing Mozilla internal master password, and the other is for Plasmoid notifications system. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/kde-wallet-password-integratio/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plasmanotify/ Looking at the code of plasmoid, it looks like they catch the calls and re-route them to kdialog's notification system. http://pastebin.mozilla.org/3122278 A good testcase is to use Calligra and review how integrated is with the rest of the desktop. > > > >> >> I know both GNOME and KDE now make use of the freedesktop.org xdg >> specifications. Maybe the internal e-mail handler in AOO can make use of >> those interfaces. At any rate, more research and investigation needed -- a >> topic for the "dev" list. >> > > Gnome use gconf for their setting rules (API), I don't know the actual > name for KDE but I know there is one. This is a few layers above DBus/uDev, > but more on the Desktop environment level. > > I also think that we need to take efforts to make OpenOffice finally deal > with media (for embedded objects). Sun never wanted to depend on DM > specific media frameworks like gstreamer, and preffered a very obsolete JMF > (Java Media Framework) which quite honestly never really worked as > expected. Freedesktop have some frameworks like Telepathy, and KDE has > phonon to deal with media. > > KDE deals greatly with OpenDocuments (not really AOO but helps) having an > internal rendering libraries for all things OpenDocuments natively. > https://kenai.com/projects/kde-odf-thumbnail > > > >> >> >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > > I was cruising through the users list yesterday and came across this >> > > message. >> > > >> > > http://markmail.org/message/tl2jof3b5inpnedj >> > > >> > > I, too am a Linux/KDE users of 11 years, but I'm not sure what you >> mean >> > by >> > > this comment -- >> > > >> > > "I use KDE; AOO only provides integration for GNOME. " >> > > >> > > Could you elaborate? >> > > What AOO desktop-integration bits do you install? >> > > >> > > -- >> > > >> > > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > MzK >> > > >> > > "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged >> > > to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." >> > > -- "Following the Equator", Mark Twain >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Alexandro Colorado >> > Apache OpenOffice Contributor >> > http://www.openoffice.org >> > 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614 >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> MzK >> >> "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged >> to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." >> -- "Following the Equator", Mark Twain >> > > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > http://www.openoffice.org > 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614 > > > > > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
