The future of Calligra Active

Jaroslaw Staniek staniek at kde.org
Thu Mar 14 12:43:39 UTC 2013


On 14 March 2013 13:21, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
> On 14.03.2013 12:02, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>>
>> On 14 March 2013 10:07, Cyrille Berger <cberger at cberger.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2013-03-14 09:36, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 13.03.2013 21:28, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In QML as we know, with proper separation of data structures (i.e.
>>>>> when components do not interfere) it's possible to insert and "app"
>>>>> within another "app" and that's almost for free.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That probably won't be used in Plasma Active for the above reasons,
>>>> but it's good that you have that flexibility, of course.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What Jaroslaw means is that you can have a single process "swap-in"
>>> application, so you would get different UI for docs, sheets,
>>> presentations,
>>> but all running in a single process.
>>>
>>> In the end, it really is just an implementation detail, I guess the
>>> original
>>> question is not whether we should have different processes, but if we
>>> should
>>> separate the UI.
>>
>>
>> For separate UI - full agreement here - it's expected for reasons
>> already mentioned - different interaction methods for each
>> application.
>
>
> In that case, it really doesn't matter to Plasma Active which way you
> choose. As Marco Martin put it (but forgot to CC calligra-devel):
>
> "as long as when one clicks on a file and gets it open in the right ui,
> whatever of the two waysdoesn't really matter.
>
> btw i think a sensible way would be putting all the "logic" functionality
> (ho ui besides document rendering tough) in the components, so in the end if
> is done in a  single executable or multiple metters even less"

Yes, which way is picked on particular platform depends on how much
resources there's to eat.

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