Idea for alternative Calligra deployment option

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 10 April 2013 19:01, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
>
> Interesting idea but I see some problems with integration...  How would this
> work with:
>  - language settings in your machine?

Minor to fix, translation can be updated via a simple option provided,
for one-time use; time/timezone settings can be shared

>  - Window manager and other applications? Or would the virtual machine always
> work in full screen?

Use the Seamless Windows feature [1]

>  - Devices that have none or bad support in VM's (specifically some graphics
> cards which might be important when running e.g. Krita).

For many users I believe performance differences are minor compared to
no software at all. I see SDKs based on VMs these days.

>  - Cut&Paste to/from other applications?

Use the Shared clipboard feature [1]

Summing up, an OS/deployment we can finally control!!!111!!

[1] VirtualBox Guest Additions http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html

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