Branding Calligra's QML UI as Calligra Active

[Cyrille Berger Skott]

On Wednesday 20 April 2011, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
> 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.

I would say, it all depends on the scope of your project. If it is to provide 
a specific interface for a specific target device, I would say do not call it 
Active, as it would be misleading. Since (Plasma) Active is about providing 
KDE based user interface to a wide range of device, from mobile to tablet, 
incuding GPS and TV (a bit like meego but with a fully open development 
process, and using KDE technologies). And for each of those devices we would 
need to design a specific user interface that would fit that device.

So if the goal of your project is to provide a generic base for QML interface, 
calling that base "Active" is an excellent idea, and then a specific interface 
would need a different name. And I would suggest a solution to solve the 
"tools" problem, which is a top directory called "active", with a directory 
countaint the active library (c++ / qml components) and one per UI:

calligra/active/lib
calligra/active/mobile
calligra/active/tablet
calligra/active/...

It does not solve the problem of two calligramobile, but I am assuming the 
current mobile UI is going to be superceded by the QML version at some point, 
so I would suggest to use a temporary name for your work like calligramobile-
qml, and when it replaces the current one, just rename the executable to 
calligramobile.

The main problem with using "Active" is that we will have to make sure it is 
not interpretated as being tied to "Plasma Active", since we want Calligra to 
run on other systems, first of all meego, but also androids, webos, or anything 
else that can run Qt, and that would be done using "Calligra Active".

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Cyrille Berger Skott