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

[todd rme]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Aakriti Gupta <aakriti.a.gupta at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 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.)
>
> 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.
>
>        -- 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?

But does the workflow have to be that different?   Would it be
possible, for instance, to add individual ones of these canvases to
page in a presentation since it is a flake shape?  Rather than
treating them as seperate, I think it might be better to treat the
single canvas as a special case of a canvas embedded in a page.

Ideally, if libreoffice can get their act together and get svg files
working in impress it might even be possible to have it displayed
correctly there as well.

>        -- 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?

Certainly not karbon.  To a user, this is a presentation, not an image.

-Todd