Re: [libreoffice-design] Page numbers on background

And how hard would it be to polish the gtk-integration to remove all the 
flickering, black lines etc.? Firefox isn't based on native gtk either 
but you can't spot any difference to a regular Gnome application. Would 
it be possible to resolve these issues in a rather short period of time 
compared to a complete rewrite?

Alex

Am 24.06.2011 20:40, schrieb Astron:
> Hi,
>
> > even though there were some improvements regarding gtk-integration in LO 3.4
> > there are still some issues like the flickering you mentioned. Are there any
> > plans to rewrite LO in gtk or QT as part of the UI redesign? At least in my
> > opinion that would be a huge improvement, make LO look far more professional
> > and would probably make coding the new UI easier.
> > How I understand it, LO is based on a "UI framework" that isn't native on
> > any system and has to be extended for each OS, right? Wouldn't it also
> > reduce coding work by simply delivering LO on Windows bundeled with gtk like
> > The Gimp?
> > What do you think?
> You're correct, LibreOffice is based on something custom called VCL
> and the only programs that use it are LibO, Ooo, and to a lesser
> amount Symphony (which is based on Ooo). It has to be extended for
> each other UI toolkit it is supposed to mimic.
> Sadly, switching is not as easy as bundling GTK/Qt, else it would have
> surely been done already. When there is so much UI to be taken care of
> as in the case of LibO this would probably equal a complete rewrite of
> LibO. While in the long run this may be worthwhile, it would mean
> developers wouldn't do much besides rewriting everything in the next
> few years.
> It also means that instead of starting LibreOffice, the Document
> Foundation would have been better spent its time and energy on
> developing Koffice or Abiword/Gnumeric and brought these programs to a
> state in which they could compete against Openoffice.org and Microsoft
> Office.
>
> Astron.



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