About Calligra Active and what it should intend to be

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Vít Pelčák <vit at pelcak.org> wrote:

> 2011/10/3 Shantanu Tushar Jha <jhahoneyk at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > (Cross posting as the topic might be of interest to both MLs)
> >
> > There was recently some discussion on the Active ML about Calligra Active
> > and how to make the user experience better.
> > Aaron Seigo had an interesting suggestion in the mail he sent [1] which
> > says-
> >
> > "
> > but imho the most important thing is for these
> > projects to focus on being amazing document _viewers_.
> > "
>
> I thought, Okular is for that. Why should I have Calligra installed?
> What is advantage? To have bazilion of viewers each being able to open
> only specific document?
>
> > I gave it a thought and realised that we need to discuss this. The reason
> I
> > can think of is that a larger percentage of the use cases are for viewing
> > the documents instead of editing them.
>
> Hm. And if user has associated LibreOffice already (very likely scenario)?
>
> > I'd like views from the Calligra team about this, should we continue what
> > we're doing now (that is, try to improve the viewing to the most we can
> and
> > then go to editing), or concentrate only on viewing?
>
> Sorry, but I'm missing point here.
>
> What should make me switch from LibreOffice to Calligra? Focus of
> Calligra on viewing documents and lack of editing tools?
>

I think you misunderstood what I said. The discussion was *only* for
Calligra Active, the QML Touch UI for Calligra. Desktop Calligra has
everything from viewing to editing to document embedding and whatever you
need :)
So no need to worry ;)


> I thought, that the major advantage of Calligra/Koffice lies in fact,
> that, unlike LibreOffice, it doesn't carry burden of legacy code.
>
> What type of user is your target? Mainstream will have LibreOffice
> already installed. What is advantage? Faster startup time when startup
> of application means only insignificant portion of whole time spent in
> program?
>
> Decision is still yours, but personally, I don't consider focus on
> viewing as good idea at all.
>
> Regards
> Vit Pelcak
>
>
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