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This may sound like blasphemy to Fedora people, but...

What about moving to Mono (and making it more C# like)...

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From: Michel RENON [mailto:michel.renon@free.fr] 
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 12:55 PM
To: design@libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-design] Re: Platform Independent vs. Platform Specific Behavior

Hi,

Le 29/04/11 07:15, Scott Pledger a écrit :
Is there any chance of implementing any kind of an XML-based UI template?
  Something similar to XUL may be a good place to start...

Yours Truly,
Scott Pledger


You're not the first to have this idea ;-) I digged into some folders and found the slides of the 
OOo Conference about that ! It was in 2005 in Slovenia and you can still see the video ! (but in a 
java applet !) http://ooocon.kiberpipa.org/media/index-day2-2005.html


But I have to admit that I'm afraid about speed : today, on my 
MacbookPro (Core2Duo@2.16GHz), Firefox needs nearly ten seconds to 
launch...LibreOffice needs more than 20 seconds...and 5 seconds more 
before typing anay character...!
So imagine LibreOffice with Gecko/XUL embedded...


Or maybe something lighter : webkit with jquery ???
but it would require some UNO/javascript bindings ? ouch...


And what about Qt ? (http://qt.nokia.com/)
With the new Qt Quick (http://qt.nokia.com/qtquick/), wouldn't it be 
interesting to evaluate such a migration ? It would avoid to reinvent 
the wheel, it would allow to use standards tools (Qt Creator, Quick 
Designer)...

One big problem is that it would replace VCL for widgets, but it would 
be in conflict with a lot of others parts of code : rendering, threads, 
network, filesystem...well nearly all the foundations of LibreOffice.
But future versions of Qt won't be monolitic :
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/01/21/status-of-qt-modularization/

Maybe this will make it possible ?

Michel


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