OpenOffice.org & GNOME integration

Firstly, we will be seeing a Planet OOo sometime soon. It’s in the works, its nearly ready, and we’ll be at least grabbing Michael Meeks‘ feed, Dan Williams, and this blog. Sander will set up a blog over the weekend, he promised.

GNOME has a cool Find Files feature (Actions -> Search for Files); now, OOo wants to be part of it too. Searching within OOo files will be mighty cool, but if that’s not enough, we’re also aiming for Nautilus extensions!

If you’re looking for an OOo migration tool, these folk seem to do it well; for a cost. Might come in handy to switch to OOo, as Microsoft is seeking XML patents for their new Office 2003 stuff. They release the schemas, and then start patenting stuff.

Re-installed the Mac OS X box after dinner (we had a party thing at our place for Chinese New Year); 20GB for Panther, and two 8.xGB partitions for Yellow Dog (upgraded to Fedora rawhide) and Debian. Sync’ed my CVS tree for OOo to it (a whole 1.1gigs worth?), and will have to go back to an older build to make it work properly. Hopefully some CVS hackery will limit the use of my bandwidth.


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