Branding Calligra's QML UI as Calligra Active

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

Hi Mani,

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Mani N C <maninc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good to hear that Plasma Active wants to showcase Calligra.
>
> If the Calligra Mobile doesn't break the desktop compilation, I would love
> to see it in tools directory. As Inge mentioned we can move it to other
> directory when Core/UI separation is done.
>

> I am ok with the "Calligra Active" name +1 from me.  For Prefix, How about
> CM<name> (CM - Calligra Mobile)
>

Well as Inge said, we can't call it Calligra Mobile, because it already
exists (Freoffice), so maybe CA or some other suggestion?


>
> Br,
> Mani
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <jhahoneyk at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> 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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