[ge-talk] UI ideas

[Ari Haviv]

As I pointed out, OLE links to the source app. If the source app of the
embedded spreadsheet is Excel then you need Excel. I now see Linkback does
this too. What we need is a link that allows linking to any spreadsheet you
want, even if it wasn't the actual source of the embedded spreadsheet

It's sad when everyone tries to make a suite to compete with MS office and
it just falls flat. gobe productive-very cool integration but because they
have to do everything with few $ resources, you don't have such a good
spreadsheet or any database for example. So they were doomed.

And everyone is trying to make the best .doc format on their own and never
quite get it right. Corel has theirs and so does OpenOffice and Koffice
and...why not just have 1 centralized open source doc translator included
with the OS and everyone just focus on that?

On 1/5/07, Niklas Nisbeth <niklas at nisbeth.dk> wrote:
>
> Yes, yes, yes, yes... This we must have. Be API is perfect for this
> kind of thing, I reckon. The problem is you need to standardise the
> data in some ways. I think.
>
> I think the problem is that OLE is only *used* by MS Office, maybe cos
> the documentation is wank or maybe it's just a pain to use.
>
> > Where did I get the idea that OLE was only for Microsoft Office?
> > Maybe
> > because Office "owns" the file formats.
> > With the translator idea you could have several apps that can deal
> > with the
> > same object and you would pick any one you want when you want to edit
> > an
> > object in your document, instead of say "Excel" for xls.
> >
> > On 1/5/07, Gavin James <gavin.james at runbox.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
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