From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 22:41:16 EDT
--- Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com> wrote: > On
Thu, 2002-05-16 at 12:13, Kenneth Rohde
> Christiansen wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be an idea to discuss this metadata
> support with the other
> > Gnome Office developers, like the Gnumeric ones,
> so we don't end up with
> > very different systems?
>
> It would be an idea to do this. I don't know if it
> would be a very
> successful one, but I'll talk with Jody about it.
>
> Gnumeric's properties dialog is a (poor) clone of
> the MSWord/EXcel
> dialog and only supports a subset of the
> MSWord/Excel properties. I've
> just made our dialog tabbed & pretty :) Since I was
> able to map MSWord's
> properties back to the Dublin Core set pretty
> easily, I imagine that
> Gnumeric will be able to too (since they are the
> same set of props...).
> At minimum, we should share the same dialog. As for
> representation in
> the file format, well, that is another story and not
> all that important.
I wonder if it will be useful to set up a metabug or
some similar system to keep track of ideas regarding
keeping AbiWord and Gnome Office on some kind of
interoperability improvement path? Just somewhere
we can put ideas like this that we hope to implement
so we don't forget them.
Andrew Dunbar.
> Dom
>
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