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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [dev] Re: KDE integration of OpenOffice
From:       CPH <cphennessy () openoffice ! org>
Date:       2003-08-20 9:07:47
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Sander Vesik wrote:

> CPH wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 00:27, Sander Vesik wrote:
>>
>>> CPH wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Jan,
>>>>     cuckoo ( http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/cuckooo ) looks 
>>>> like
>>>> it's *very* interesting.
>>>
>>>
>>> wow! this looks cool 8-) There used to be a similar one for nautilus
>>> brioefly but ... it lasted only a short while and then degraded.
>>
>>
>> I hope that there will be enough users of this feature that there 
>> will be too much of a demand for it to degrade :)
>>
>
> Thats the best way really.
>
>>
>>>> Interested in it becoming an incubator project within OpenOffice.org ?
>>>>
>>>> A few other things worth considering include :
>>>>   using the Kde File dialog instead of the OOo one;
>>>
>>>
>>> unless it provides all the same things as the native OOo one, you would
>>> need to plug in the 'native vs OOo' file dialog options aswell. this
>>> affects things like browing/using ftp and webdav directories/files. 
>>> unles
>>> the kde file doialog can handle that.
>>
>>
>> KDE file dialog is able to handle lots of input by using kio-slaves 
>> e.g. http:, webdev:, file:, ftp:, fish: ( ssh browsing ), and I'm 
>> sure that there are others ( smtp, gzip, ldap, nntp, smb, pop3, 
>> sftp:  ). I maybe wrong but I think that all of these can provide 
>> data coresponding to an ordinary file. What I'm not sure is how OOo 
>> reads files.
>>
>
> via a technology called ucb. it *might* be possible to make a generic 
> kioslave provider - i don't know, I just have no idea about kde 
> technologies. (and there may be some gpl related problems, though) 

I don't think that there should be a gpl problem as I think that 
all/most of the kdelibs are licenced under the lgpl.
Also kioslaves are seperate processes, so there is that separation also.
CPH

 
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