About Calligra Active and what it should intend to be

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Monday 03 October 2011 Oct, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
> > 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 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.
> >
> > 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?
>
> We do have a roadmap:
> http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Roadmaps/2.4/Roadmap. This link has been
> posted to both the Calligra and the active mailing lists. And I think it
> still is valid.
>

Yes, I haven't overlooked the roadmap, just wanted comments, thats all :)

>
> Go for viewer first. Integrate pdf viewing inside Calligra Active. It's not
> difficult, it has been done before (with Harmattan Office), and now that the
> N9 is shipping, that could should be made public really soon.
>

> Then all we need to do is re-use the pdf-viewing code in Harmattan Office
> in Calligra active, and we've got one, great document viewer with one user
> interface.
>

Ah ok, I will discuss technical details of that without CC'ing active. But I
guess atleast for Active 1.0 we won't be able have CA supporting PDFs.


>
> But after that, I would go for adding editing functionality to Calligra
> Active. People are using tablets mainly for consumption, but light editing
> should be possible.


Ok, and just to let other people know, editing might take some time to come,
so yeah, I will try to focus on Viewing only for now (until it becomes
properly integrated).


>
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Cheers,

Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
http://www.shantanutushar.com
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