Re: Gnome Office, Bonobo and other apps

Le mer 10/03/2004 à 08:26, Hubert Figuiere a écrit :
> On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 16:08, Jean Bréfort wrote:
> 
> > I have started developing applications related to chemistry (GChemPaint
> > and Gnome Crystal) some years ago, using the gtk+ and gnome libs with
> > the hope I'll be able one day to incorporate data inside Abiword and
> > other gnome apps using Bonobo.
> > I could do it in gnumeric-1.0 (but the data were not saved) but never in
> > abiword, which would be much more interesting.
> > I'd like to know if there are plans to use Bonobo embedding (may be I
> > can help).
> 
> Jean,
> 
> This sounds interesting. We'd love to have equations as well :-)
> 
> BTW, AbiWord does not support embedding yet. One of the major issue is
> that we want to make cross-platform foundations for embedding to keep
> documents portable, and on top of that provide binging to Bonobo,
> KParts, OLE or whatever is en vogue on the platform. We also wants to
> make sure the document can be viewed without the application that made
> the object.

This is just my opinion.

>  For that we need the application to be able to provide a SVG
> view of the embedded object... Problem: we don't support SVG yet.

Providing a SVG view will be easy for gnome apps, since gnome-print has
a svg backend (only cvs version).
For Bonobo, I think we need a specialized interface which would provide
everything necessary, in particular svg and serialization (might be 
IDL:Bonobo/OfficeComponent:1.0. IMHO the IDL:Bonobo/PersistStream:1.0 is
not the best thing. An interface which would ensure an xml stream would
be much better.

> All in all, there is a lot of work. Help is welcome.
> 
> Any more info on your tools ?

The web links are http://www.nongnu.org/gchempaint and
http://www.nongnu.org/gcrystal

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