From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: MON KEY Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: DocView now supports OpenDocument & MS Office formats Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:32:53 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293748390 25721 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2010 22:33:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:33:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tassilo Horn , Stefan Monnier To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 30 23:33:05 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PYR3R-0005ck-41 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:33:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52796 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PYR3Q-00018J-BN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:33:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33256 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PYR3L-00017x-2o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:33:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PYR3H-0002XU-Qv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:32:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:62219) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PYR3H-0002XD-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:32:55 -0500 Original-Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so11739745wyj.0 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:32:53 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.216.163.69 with SMTP id z47mr15956668wek.43.1293748373426; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:32:53 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.216.70.212 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:32:53 -0800 (PST) X-Google-Sender-Auth: k-_R-f5VtpFNDVK-woof7TNFe7g X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134058 Archived-At: >> Hm, I don't know. It mostly depends on unoconv, which in turn depends >> on OO.org. I have version 0.4 installed here, but at least 0.3 should >> be fine as well. > I see. On my Debian machines (6 year-old Debian testing > installation which has accumulated pretty much all packages I've > ever needed during those years), I don't have unoconv installed, > so I think there's a good chance that many people don't have it > installed. This fact I think gives a first answer to "should we > add .doc and .odt to auto-mode-alist": onlyif unoconv is available. There is maybe a problem here around promoting unoconv wrt UNO API, e.g: unoconv < UNO < OO.org It may be a bit misleading to give potential users of this feature an impression that unoconv's dependencies are less than trivial, i.e.: "It mostly depends on unoconv, which in turn depends on OO.org." >From the Uno FAQ: 2.22 How do I remotely connect to an OpenOffice.org running on a different machine? ,---- | | When connecting to an OpenOffice.org you supply an Uno URL, which | allows to locate a named Uno object in a different process. A Uno | URL consists of four parts: | | * The constant string "uno". | | * A connection specification with optional parameters as | key/value pairs. | | * A protocol specification with optional parameters as key/value | pairs. | | * The name of the object to be located. | | Those four parts are concatenated to a string | | uno:[connection],params;[protocol],params;[objectname] | | An example Uno URL looks like: | | uno:socket,host=localhost,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager | | {...} | `---- http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Uno/FAQ#How_do_I_remotely_connect_to_an_OpenOffice.org_running_on_a_different_machine.3F Isn't this sort of stuff a slippery slope to Software as Service? E.g.: http://udk.openoffice.org/common/man/spec/remotebridge.html Recall the recent discussion around software as service and Julien Danjou's GG maps related interface... -- /s_P\