Re: [libreoffice-users] Some ideas regarding LibreOffice development

Hi Ilya,

Ilya Chernykh wrote:
> Hi! 
>
> I just want to propose two ideas regarding LibreOffice which I feel important.
>
> First, I think it would be great if LibreOffice set had its own browser. 
My two cents: I think LO should focus on office applications and leave
web editing/browsing to other great software that already exists. IMHO.

Lorenzo.

> This would
>
> - Make it easy to embed web pages in LibreOffice documents
> - Make interaction with online web pages easier
> - Provide a useful browser well integrated with other LO applications which could be also well 
> integrated with KDE4, KDE3, Gnome (as Libre Office is currently)
>
> There is already ooweb mode of writer which allows to see and edit any online web page, but it 
> has several limitations:
>
> - It cannot resolve URLs provided as just a site name. I.e. it can open  
> http://www.mysite.org/index.htm (http://www.mysite.org/index.htm)  but cannot just  
> http://www.mysite.org (http://www.mysite.org) 
> - It displays the web pages in editing mode with service information which is not normally 
> displayed in the viewing mode.
> - There are no navigational buttons and address bar.
>
> So the improvement should be in just adding one more viewing mode to writer.
>
> Second, I suggest to make the Basic IDE a stand-alone LO component. 
>
> It can be currently started with command soffice ".uno:BasicIDEAppear" and as I know there is a 
> separate icon for Basic IDE. 
>
> It would be great if a menu entry for this IDE was created by default, the menu of the IDE 
> included all necessary entries for creating a new macro etc on their usual positions (i.e. in 
> file menu) etc. 
>
> As creating a compiler could be a very difficult task, it still could be used as interpreter for 
> creating separate VB script files and run them from the console much like Python interpreter does.

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