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> I think your idea is very good!!, I support it.
> 
> 
>  Tell me what's not accomplished in emacs, which is in MS office currently.
>  May be many.
>  We need more GUI style of things and enhanced modes.
> 
> Artist
 
 
I'm thinking that the idea that Emacs is predominantly text-based system
(with an optional gui front-end) prevents it from being a viable option
for appealing to the common user. It also makes it harder to support
word processor-y type things like fonts, graphics etc. What I'm thinking
is something like Emacs only providing the functionality and a similar
GUI type interface to apps like gnumeric, evolution, gimp, galeon etc
etc all within the one app (with the appropriate mode loaded).