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OpenOffice.org to Get Firefox Extensions and More

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fight-for-your-desktop dept.

I_am_Rambi writes "OpenOffice.org is set to get new features including Firefox-like extensions. From the article: 'Second, and I think that although we have no clear road map for this yet (besides, our version naming scheme is going to change once again ), OpenOffice.org and StarOffice shall include the Mozilla Foundation's Thunderbird and Sunbird (calendaring application) in the future. Besides the inclusion of those two softs inside the office suite, connectors to Sun Calendar Server and Microsoft Exchange will also be developed accordingly.'"

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  1. Yeah, but what I want to know by overshoot · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ... is whether they're even considering items that have been highly-voted on requests for several years.

    Examples: Gallery import between versions, or the all-time champion outline view -- the longest-lived request with a huge votecount, declared by quite a few professional writers and educators as the show-stopper keeping OpenOffice.org out of their offices and schools. Apparently the team has other priorities.

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  2. Why not Evolution by overshoot · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I do wonder why these were chosen over Evolution [gnome.org], which is more like Outlook & already has integrated calendaring.
    If it were me, I'd say it's because Evo is a toad, complete with hard-coded URLs. Gag.

    However, it's not me -- it's Sun. And for Sun, the deal-breaker is that Evolution is GPL-licensed. The Mozilla license is much more suited to their private-branding model.

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  3. Re:Extension I'd like to see by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But seriously, Is there a plugin similar to the 'APA referencing Macro' for MSOffice?

    I'm a little concerned by the plug-in trend for applications. I think it is implementing functionality at the wrong level. How much work does it take to create a plug-in to make references like this that work with Word's macro feature. How much effort to make it work with OpenOffice's plug-in system? How much work to implement it once for every application you might want to use references within?

    Mac OS X has introduced system services. One plug-in that works on all text that uses the standard APIs in any program. There exists one for automated formatting of references, by the way. If other OS's would just adopt a similar system, or better yet adopt a standard for all of them, we could remove so much duplication of effort and users would get to choose the best of breed for anything they wanted. I mean one spell checking plugin for Firefox, one built into Word, one built into InDesign, one built into Eudora, and none available for photoshop, IM, IRC, and your favorite text editor is a serious waste and failure to properly use the resources put into these tasks. I'm very unhappy with this trend towards application specific plug-ins when what is really desired is modular plug-ins that can be used anywhere.