<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Sven Langkamp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sven.langkamp@gmail.com">sven.langkamp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Yuval Levy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:create07@sfina.com" target="_blank">create07@sfina.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Cyrille Berger wrote:<br>
> yeah somehow, I like the idea of leaving this to file management application<br>
> (wether nautilus or dolphin)<br>
<br>
</div>yes, file managers are the way to go, not the (IMO useless) Bridge.<br>
<br>
I wonder if <<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc</a>> could be revived and<br>
if a new implementation and/or the progress since then in hardware and<br>
software would solve the issues that lead to the demise.<br>
<br>
From the wikipedia article: "Apple officially relinquished the last<br>
trademark on the name OpenDoc on June 11, 2005.". Catchy name for free,<br>
courtesy of the forbidden fruit ;-) ?</blockquote></div><div><br>We did something similar with flake in KOffice. Basically it allows to extend documents with custom components.<br>I think data exchange between apps is much more important than having the same UI. This is the point where the Adobe products currently shine: Everything it integrated.<br>
When you edit an svg file with Inkscape/Karbon and import it e.g. in Scribus you often get a message that some feature isn't supported. So while we have some great tools the integration between them is missing.<br><br>
Of course you still have the same problems as for the UI, there is lots of legacy code and different toolkits.<br></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br>We did something similar with flake in KOffice. Basically it allows to extend documents with custom components.<br>I
think data exchange between apps is much more important than having the
same UI. This is the point where the Adobe products currently shine:
Everything it integrated.<br>
When you edit an svg file with Inkscape/Karbon and import it e.g. in
Scribus you often get a message that some feature isn't supported. So
while we have some great tools the integration between them is missing.<br><br>
Of course you still have the same problems as for the UI, there is lots of legacy code and different toolkits.<br>