Plasma Active Roadmap

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Friday 12 August 2011 Aug, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Calligra Active is a subset of Plasma Active. Following discussions with Aaron, we decided to sit down and make kind of a roadmap with prioritized features for Calligra Active. I'll add it to the community wiki as well.
> 
> rocking :)
> 
> > After discussion with the maintainer, Shantanu, we arrived at this:
> >
> > Mission statement:
> >
> > The first release of Calligra Active will be a capable, performant document, finger-friendly viewer for tablets that can pan and zoom smoothly and display office documents but not PDF.
> >
> > For the first release (with Calligra 2.4), open tasks are:
> >
> >    * integreation with the desktop search system
> >    * include a presentation mode (needs some hacking in stage itself to reuse stage's presentation mode)
> >    * support search
> >    * support select
> >    * support copy
> 
> i may add
> * Share Like Connect integration  (if using qml it's literally 3 lines ;))
> 

Okay, will add it.

> > Long term goals are:
> >
> >    * support PDF (unless plasma active already has a finger-friend pdf viewer, we intend to use the same frontend for finding documents, and poppler for display)
> >    * support editing of text
> >    * support editing of graphics
> 
> at the moment there is okular installed.
> it's not bad, a more touch ready version would be good tough.
> now i don't know how much of okular can be recycled (being quite
> depending from qwidget) would be good with not reinventing an
> application from scratch, but i trust you guys there on what can or
> can't be done :)

We've actually implemented poppler-based pdf rendering for harmattan office. Because of the poppler license, this will be open-sourced, most probably (but this is dependent on Nokia) under LGPLv2+. That means that we've got a completely qgraphicsview based pdf rendered mostly for free, once the N9 hits the streets :-). It should be really easy to integrate that into Calligra Active.


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Boudewijn Rempt
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