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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] modularized openoffice.org
From:       "Michael S. Mikowski" <z_mikowski () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2003-02-03 18:00:25
Message-ID: 200302031300.25843.z_mikowski () yahoo ! com
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_excellent_ idea!  Make the grammer checker a module, english a module, etc. 
I'd be surprised if the architecture "under the hood" isn't already somewhat 
like this.

Generally, any plugin shouldn't be able to change the file format, although 
one could support embedded plugin objects, e.g. Flash on a web page.
Hmmm.  What should (is?) the plugin api be?  Could some netscape and ie 
plugins be adopted by providing a compatible api?

On Monday 03 February 2003 12:16 pm, Anthony Valentine wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've been thinking of bloated software recently, and I came to the
> conclusion that people want lots of features.  Unfortunately, different
> people want different features, so to keep people happy, all these
> features get added.  Before you know it, your program is bloated and
> slow.
>
> This begs the question, can OpenOffice.org be modularized, like the
> Linux kernel is?  That is to say, can I compile in certain features that
> I want, leave others out that I'll never use and make other features as
> modules that can be loaded when needed?


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