'Single canvas presentation' - in Stage or in a new application?

[Jean-Nicolas Artaud]

2011/9/6 Aakriti Gupta <aakriti.a.gupta at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>

Hello,


> GSoC got over a few days back and after completing my exams, I am now back
> at work.
>
> (My project was to make a new mode in Stage for single canvas
> presentations. I made a new shape - PresentationViewPortShape and a tool for
> it. But I tested everything in Karbon alone where I could save the animated
> SVG presentation.)
>

Good work done so far, happy to see you again :-)


> Now, I have a question:
> Should Stage have a new mode for this feature or should we have an all new
> app in Calligra for this?
>
>        -- Stage, being the presentation app, is the place where a user
> would come to make a presentation.
>
I am really sure users don't want to use the normal presentation app to make
this kind of presentation. People (out of the open source things) just ask
"which app does it ?", not "does powerpoint able to make this kind of
presentation ?". It's also a really other way of thinking, not a simple
different way to show informations. Adding this feature will change every
thing in stage: most of tools and views are a non-sense for the svg
presentation. SVG edit tools are missing in stage. So it means that a new
mode should be created, removing most of the stage things, including the
canvas, and most of all Karbon should be added in there... Of course, the
viewer we have cannot receive a SVG presentation... You just have to look at
the GSoC results to see this, include the SVG presentations in karbon was
done, but in stage, it was way more hard! If the solution is chosen, a big
redesign of stage has to be done for the mode, which look like a 2
applications in one.


>        -- But since the workflow is very different from making a normal
> slide show, the mode 'might' become confusing. Jean suggested we have a new
> application for this feature. But, should Calligra have a whole new app
> dedicated to this?
>
As you said, I am really convinced it's the way to choose. By the way it
doesn't really add complexity. At least it avoids breaking the applications
concepts. And in this way, we could have specialized tools and view for the
SVG presentations.


>        -- In Stage I still haven't been able to work out how to save and
> load an SVG. In Karbon, afaik, a KarbonDocument is converted to an SVG. What
> should be used in its place in Stage?
>
Karbon is IMO a non sense, the user doesn't matter it is a SVG... he doesn't
see the technical side.


>
>
> I'd love to hear your inputs regarding this.
>
> --
> Thanks!
>
> -Aakriti
>
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>
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-- 
Jean-Nicolas
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