Calligra and Unity - Here's our chance

Inge Wallin inge at lysator.liu.se
Fri Oct 5 14:03:15 BST 2012


On Friday, October 05, 2012 13:45:46 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> On 4 October 2012 00:08, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> > As you may know KDE applications in general and Calligra in particular
> > don't play too well together with Unity. Among other places, this can be
> > seen in this article:
> > http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Calligra-Productivity-Suite-Too-Much-
> > Trouble-76291.html
> 
> Obviously Unity is one of the most custom UIs out there on Linux (even
> compared to e17 ;) so there's work to do before we 'officially'
> support it.
> An answer by Calligra user explains this (and a few other) aspect
> quite politely:
> 
> http://www.ectnews.com/perl/board/mboard.pl/lnitalkback/thread6229/6229.htm
> l
> 
> Given the large user base of Unity I also think it makes sense to fix
> the display glitches. This is also opportunity for new developers that
> use Unity, anyone here? :) At least I wouldn't reject detailed review
> and suggestions from users of Unity. "Calligra Everywhere" is our
> motto too.

Indeed, but the point this time is that we have a chance to get them fixed for 
us _now_ if we react quickly. In other words, we wouldn't have to do anything 
ourselves.  Does really nobody have Unity on their machine?



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