[ge-talk] UI ideas

[Michael Phipps]

No one else has an infrastructure in place for that.
A translator for the ODF format(s) is on my personal wish list for R2. Then 
I can decide if I want to use StyledEdit or Gobe or *whatever* to open 
those ubiquitous Word documents.

Ari Haviv wrote:
> 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?