Idea for alternative Calligra deployment option

[Inge Wallin]

On Thursday, April 11, 2013 13:38:49 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> 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!!

Yes, it does sound like all bases are covered. :)

Except I don't 100% buy that bad performance is good enough, at least not for 
Krita users. When you are working with 12kx4k pixel images performance is 
crucial.

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