%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% %% "tfont" defs in this part is for those who have downloaded Microsoft %% TrueType fonts (or those who mounting Windows partition from your UNIX %% partition). %% those are available at: http://microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm %% and they require Windows licence to extract the archive. %% %% If you got Computer Modern fonts in TrueType format, you may want to %% use the following settings: %% "cmss10.ttf" for standard, "cmssbx10.ttf" for thick, %% "cmtt10.ttf" for typewriter %% CM fonts are avaiable at CTAN mirros, pub/CTAN/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/ttf. %% unlike MS ones, it does not require Windows license! %% %% see README.fonts{,.jp} for more detailed milage you take. %% %deffont "standard" xfont "helvetica-medium-r", vfont "goth", tfont "arial.ttf", tmfont "wadalab-gothic.ttf" %deffont "thick" xfont "helvetica-bold-r", vfont "goth", tfont "arialbd.ttf", tmfont "wadalab-gothic.ttf" %deffont "typewriter" xfont "courier-medium-r", vfont "goth", tfont "courbd.ttf", tmfont "wadalab-gothic.ttf" %% %% Default settings per each line numbers. %% %default 1 leftfill, size 2, fore "white", back "black", font "thick" %default 2 size 7, vgap 10, prefix " " %default 3 size 2, bar "gray70", vgap 10 %default 4 size 5, fore "white", vgap 30, prefix " ", font "standard" %% %% Default settings that are applied to TAB-indented lines. %% %tab 1 size 7, vgap 60, prefix " ", icon box "green" 50 %tab 2 size 5, vgap 50, prefix " ", icon arc "yellow" 50 %tab 3 size 5, vgap 40, prefix " ", icon delta3 "white" 40 %tab 4 size 4, vgap 40, prefix " ", icon arc "red" 30 %tab 5 size 4, vgap 40, prefix " ", icon delta1 "white" 30 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %page %right State of GNOME Office %left Who needs an office suite ? Church Secretaries Students Office Workers Short story: Everyone! %page %right State of GNOME Office %left What is GNOME Office ? A loose collection of programs? A (soon to be) well integrated suite of applications? A set of supporting libraries too? Something else? Applications associated with GNOME Office Gnumeric Abiword Guppi Achtung Dia Sodipodi Toutdoux Mrproject Evolution Gnucash Gimp Gide Open Office Libraries associated with GNOME Office Gnome Print LibXML LibOLE GAL/EEL wvWare %page %right State of Gnumeric %left What is Gnumeric A spreadsheet "As close to Excel as necessary but no closer" Created by Miguel almost 3 years ago Showcases GNOME technology %page %right State of Gnumeric %left What is Gnumeric What is our Quest Provide a viable replacement for commercial spreadsheets Use MS strategy 'Embrace Extend ...' Concentrate of minimising cost of transition Produce a high quality spreadsheet Correctness Maintainability Completeness Performance %page %right State of Gnumeric %left What is Gnumeric What is our Quest What is the ground speed of an unladen swallow %page %right State of Gnumeric %left Overall State Characterise year as 'maturing' # bugs vs panel Attack of the Grandmothers Establish release protocols Fill in and test existing features Improve internationalization Portability %page %right State of Gnumeric %left User Features Structured Text import/export Improve plugin architecture Applix Import Hidden rows/cols Merged cells Autoformat Weighted undo completed %page %right State of Gnumeric %left Developer Features Workbook MVC split Asymmetric Quad-tree style storage Core support for graphing and sheet objects Async UI update Pending Outline mode support Use of Gnumeric as Bonobo::{Control,Embeddable} Improved parse errors (leading to validation) Unscheduled Support just in time render and span Conditional formating Move Cells into a-quadtree %page %right State of Gnumeric %left Plans 1.0 Target simple home use Charts Frozen/Split Panes Release during 2001 Feature freeze in July 1.2 Gui/Core split Pivots Scripting API Proposal Beyond Doom Component as Flight simulator proxy %page %right State of Gnumeric %left The competition OpenCalc kspread misc smaller offerings (siag, sc ...) %page %right State of Gnumeric %left Active Gnumeric Community Alan Cox Almer Ariel Chema Dom Lachowicz ERDI Gergo Hardy Falk JPR JPablo Jacob John Gill Jon Kare Jukka Kenneth Marko Matthew D. Bissiri Michael Levy Michael Meeks Miguel Mike Kestner Morten Pablo De Napoli Thomas Canty Vlad Harchev Zbigniew Chyla Translators & Testers %page %right State of AbiWord %left What is AbiWord A WYSIWYG wordprocessor Abi = Free (in Spanish) Created by AbiSource 3 years ago Modular XP document creation package Works on just about any Unix, BeOS, QNX, Win32, and MacOS %page %right State of AbiWord %left Feature List : Text, Image, Paragraph, Section formatting Multiple Views Tons of conversion filters Fields Styles Multiple column layout Multi-language spell-checking Editable headers/footers Lists Just about every other thing that you'd expect in a WP Except for tables %page %right State of AbiWord %left What is XP? A lot of things... A way of thinking/designing A way of life A side-effect of good (or trivially simple ;) code/design Good design and conforming code makes XP easy to achieve A side-effect of an implementation language So what does the Abi-Framework mean? Abi on Windows looks like MSWord. Abi on Gnome looks like Gnumeric or Evolution Native component use/reuse AbiWord achieves true integration with its host platform Able to achieve anything that the underlying platform provides Similar functionality is implemented on each platform %page %right State of AbiWord %left libwv XP MSWord DOC converter Based on GLib and LibOLE2 and a lot of ANSI C code wvWare wvHTML, wvLaTeX, wvWML, wvABW, wvRTF, wvText wvPS, wvDVI, wvPDF etc... Reads MSWord docs version 2->9 (Word 2 -> Word2000) Stand-Alone library interface, usable by apps Soon * -> DOC converter %page %right State of AbiWord %left So where does GNOME fit into the Abi framework? Outright XP library usage LibOLE2 GLib GTK+ Gnome Libs currently used Gnome Libs Gnome Print GAL Gnome Libs that will be used in the very near future Bonobo GConf GB ? %page %right State of AbiWord %left Plans 1.0 User definable Styles %page %right State of GNOME Office %left End result ? Strive to push more things into lower-level libs GAL, Gnome Print, etc... Put more functionality into these libs Print to PDF, Fax More 'clean' widgets not in GTK+ or Gnome Libs/UI Get all Gnome apps to use these libs Everyone benefits