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[Sven Langkamp]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Sven Langkamp <sven.langkamp at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Yuval Levy <create07 at sfina.com> wrote:
>
>> Cyrille Berger wrote:
>> > yeah somehow, I like the idea of leaving this to file management
>> application
>> > (wether nautilus or dolphin)
>>
>> yes, file managers are the way to go, not the (IMO useless) Bridge.
>>
>> I wonder if <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc> could be revived and
>> if a new implementation and/or the progress since then in hardware and
>> software would solve the issues that lead to the demise.
>>
>>  From the wikipedia article: "Apple officially relinquished the last
>> trademark on the name OpenDoc on June 11, 2005.". Catchy name for free,
>> courtesy of the forbidden fruit ;-) ?
>
>
> We did something similar with flake in KOffice. Basically it allows to
> extend documents with custom components.
> 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.
> 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.
>
> Of course you still have the same problems as for the UI, there is lots of
> legacy code and different toolkits.
>

We did something similar with flake in KOffice. Basically it allows to
extend documents with custom components.
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.
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.

Of course you still have the same problems as for the UI, there is lots of
legacy code and different toolkits.
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