[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Fwd: Libre Office's future strategy - suggestions from a Computer Weekly article that may be of use to the Foundation

Le 2010-10-30 05:27, Monfort Florian a écrit :

> I don't think I have expressed well my idea. My idea is not to integrate
> Scribus, Thunderbird or other softwares to LO, but to the Document
> Foundation.
>
> The idea is that the Document Foundation provides the LO suite, but also
> PROMOTES other softwares to make more complete this suite. It would be a
> kind of "sponsor", so that if teachers in education for example do only
> need the LO suite, they download it. But if we're talking about a
> company with more specifical needs, The Document Foundation would
> provide them LO, plus the links, the ad or any other form of linking to
> other softwares like Scribus, Thunderbird etc ...
>
> The objectiv could be clear : at long terms, replace the whole Windows
> working environnement ( with MS Office, Outlook, InDesign etc ... ) by
> an open-source based suite from different project. All of that would
> make the offer flexible in fonction of the needs of everyone. LO would
> be like the basic offer.

I see, more like advocating different software packages that would 
compliment the LibO Suite. I don't have any problems with this. In fact 
we should be advocating for sure any software packages that have somehow 
managed to show some kind of attempt at integrating themselves into LibO.

It would be neat (I know that this is not possible for now) if these 
extras could hook into LibO itself and by doing so, they would 
automatically adopt the LibO colours and icons. Almost as if the LibO 
suite was modular itself in design BUT modular in the sense that the 
whole [Writer+Impress+Calc+Base] were the basis from where the modular 
design came from. The other pieces of software would "hook" themselves 
onto the [Writer+Impress+Calc+Base] and NOT to  a component of the LibO.

For example, if you wanted to have a mail/scheduling package, then 
something like the Thunderbird+Lightning combo could attach themselves 
to LibO through some hooks. It would then look like this:

[Writer+Impress+Calc+Base] + [Thunderbird+lightning]

By hooking themselves to [Writer+Impress+Calc+Base], the 
[Thunderbird+lightning] hook would have enabled its adoption of the 
[Writer+Impress+Calc+Base] set of colours and icons.

The same for example with Inkscape that some are advocating for 
inclusion. Instead Inkscape could "hook" itself onto the 
[Writer+Impress+Calc+Base] and adopt the set of colours and icons and 
act as if it were part of the suite. It would look like this:

[Writer+Impress+Calc+Base] + Inscape

Marc



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