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List:       koffice
Subject:    OT: Re: New Mozilla Roadmap - what does it means for KOffice?
From:       Vadim Plessky <vplessky () faringosept ! ru>
Date:       2003-04-05 11:19:30
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On Saturday 05 April 2003 00:42, Nelson Ferraz wrote:
|  As you must know, the Mozilla team will start focusing on specialized
|  applications, such as Phoenix (web browser) and Minotaur (mail reader).

I am wondering here wether any serious business user would use programs with 
such names :-)

|
|  In the office suites arena, we have two styles: OpenOffice, monolythic,
|  and KOffice, with specialized tools.
|
|  If the Mozilla case tell us something, is that specialized tools is a
|  better design than monolythic applications. UNIX is like that.

I think Mozilla is an excellent example how programs *should not* be 
developed.

|
|  So, keep up the great work! You are on the right track.
|
|  Finally, I'd like to suggest that you borrow some code from OpenOffice,
|  to implement the MS Office import/export filters. Perhaps that should be
|  a specialized application?

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Best Regards,

Vadim Plessky
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