Branding Calligra's QML UI as Calligra Active

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

Hi all,

I'm not a very talkative person, so there aren't many mails to the ML, or
posts on my blog/planet about stuff I've been doing lately, so here's a
little intro (again ;) ) -
I started developing a QML UI for Calligra under a university project funded
by Nokia this spring. As its been a QML learning experience for me, and
integrating it with C++ hasn't been trivial, it took some time to get to a
semi-working state.

While development of the QML UI is going on at a better pace than before,
and is catching up with rest of Calligra, there was this cool initiative
called Plasma Active [1] which attempts to bring KDE to a broader spectrum
of devices, including handhelds, tablets etc. Its a proud moment for us that
Plasma Active wants to showcase Calligra as a part of the first set of
Active set of applications, and so its time to push our efforts to make
Calligra shine.

I had some discussion with Inge over this (thanks Inge for the idea), and we
concluded that the current Calligra Mobile (formerly known as Freoffice), is
functional and robust, so it would not make sense to call the QML version as
"Calligra Mobile" until it reaches that state. However, Plasma Active gives
us a good opportunity, and there comes the idea of calling the QML UI as
"Calligra Active". This is beneficial currently as we offer our users both
the mature QWidget-based UI, and a shiny QML UI, and they can choose.

Finally, as most of the mobile platforms Active is targeting will be running
a MeeGo variant, this will also help us to achieve goals summarised by
Suresh at
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/calligra-devel/2011-January/000563.html.

So, this mail is intended to -

1. Gather consensus to brand Calligra's QML UI as Calligra Active.
2. Move QML UI from my branch [2] to master, but we need to discuss where
to? tools/active/ is one possible alternative, what do you think?
3. Currently I'm not using any prefix for my classes. Any suggestions?

So, lets join the Active initiative and lets make world domination a
reality.

(NOTE: if you're a Calligra Mobile contributor, you *must* reply ;)

Cheers,

-- 

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

[1] http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2011/04/plasma-active-quick.html
[2]
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=calligra.git&a=shortlog&h=refs/heads/mobile-qml-shantanu
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