RFC: Calligra press kit

[Markus Slopianka]

That sounds more like a dedicated page on TechBase is needed.
I can rephrase the part about Engine to something like "Calligra Engine is in the process 
of becoming ... check techbase.kde.org/... for more detailed info".

Markus


On Mittwoch 07 Dezember 2011 21:46:11 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:

> I think we may want to work more on specifying what Calligra Engine
> is, what it will be in one year and maybe later. In the current text
> it looks like the Engine is formed by libs sitting above Qt and KDE
> frameworks
> and below Calligra Apps. But in fact only selected, incrementally more and
> more libs would provided with a public API for the 3rd-party apps. For
> now it's a
> pilot effort for early adopters and naturally because it's all pilot
> it has to be supported by
> Calligra developers like devs from KO GmbH who support companies that
> adopt Calligra technologies in their products.
> In this light, I understand that we define what Calligra Engine is,
> step by step, without declaring all the goodness as final frameworks
> too early.
> 
> We even had some discussions on the topic on the Sprint #1 where we
> noticed the Engine can support more than one aspect related to Office
> Suites. I think so far we could explain one or two aspects that can work
> for certain cases; e.g. 1.
> filters API for headless import/export, 2. (QWidget) GUI abstraction
> for creating custom applications. Both things are already available.
> There's a of course lot of progress in ODF documents
> generation/modification framework for C++. I hope later it would be
> extended by an equivalent for QtScript.
> 
> Thank you for your contribution, Markus.