Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior (was: Re: [libreoffice-design] Take inspiration from Lotus Symphony ?)

On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 10:49 -0600, Scott Pledger wrote:
> One thing that we may wish to look into is using the same concept as the
> Chromium project does - pulling colors in from the user's native desktop
> environment, but not necessarily using those widgets.  This will give
> LibreOffice the ability to render its own layout and even graphics options,
> but it will render them in a manner that allows for much better desktop
> integration without completely rejecting using our own layout/widget
> concepts...

FYI, that's precisely what we do today.  We do pull colors from the
native desktop, and we do even render widgets using native calls, but do
our own layouting, which isn't all that great and doesn't make the app
feel and behave like a native app (IMO).

Kohei

-- 
Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc
<kyoshida@novell.com>


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