Some of the things needed for 1.0

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 03 October 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> Calligra and Okular developers would be VERY welcome to help us design and
> implement this infrastructure. but imho the most important thing is for
> these projects to focus on being amazing document _viewers_.
> 
> having a consistent UI concept that both can adopt for common things like
> "how to position content", "how to show UI chrome", "how to enter and
> leave full screen display", "how to zoom, pan and move between pages in
> the document" should be made as consistent as possible between them.
> 
> how to technologically achieve that consistency is an open question left to
> those projects: by sharing UI components (QML?), by embedding the different
> viewers in one shared control shell .. or some other genius idea :)
> 

yeah, i would definitely like to see a single big shared qml component between 
the add resource interface and the browsers of any kind of resource.

probably between the different types of document there is going to be some ui 
difference, but really minimal.

it would be something that shows as a grid of results the various resources, 
with controls to filter by activity,date,tag,rating,whatever (this is still 
all quite nebulous ;)

it would also need some heavy duty querying mechanism to nepomuk, not 
completely happy of the metadata dataengine (it could become a model, or 
something else, but definitely something capable of managing a query with some 
thousands of results without collapsing, while being very easy to use from 
qml)

Aanyways, i really think the biggest point of PA2, together finally shipping 
the recommendations should be this

Cheers,
Marco Martin