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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: The "Killer" application]
From:       Eugene <enine () ninefamily ! com>
Date:       2003-11-25 23:18:53
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On Tuesday 25 November 2003 5:51 pm, David Faure wrote:
> > This issue isn't just for this idea.  To compete with other Office suites
> > you need to be able to insert into either a Word document or a
> > presentation Slide, a data object which is linked to a Spreadsheet file.
>
> This is of course possible.
> Embedding single cells at a time sounds quite difficult to use though, in
> the current state of things (why do you want to do that?)
>
> > 3.	Why are there different file formats for different applications?
> >
> > Or, at least why isn't there a general container file format?  Like with
> > a DTP application.
>
> This will be the case once we switch to the OpenOffice.org file format
> (or rather a common file format based on their current format, but with
> additions needed to make it a bit more generic and fit KOffice's needs).
>
> > my question is why KOffice maintains the paradigm of separate
> > applications.
>
> KOShell unifies this a little bit already. Of course it presents the
> applications (parts) as the first choice to make - you still need to be
> able to choose whether your document will primarily be a grid of cells or a
> blank page to start with, no matter how much things are unified behind the
> hood :)
What direction is KOShell going to go?  To me it currently looks like you 
choose the app/part and create a document specific to that app/part which 
isn't much different from running that particular app in the first place.  
I'd like to see something a bit different.


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