KRichTextEdit for kdelibs

[Jakub Stachowski]

Dnia sobota, 19 kwietnia 2008, Stephen Kelly napisał:
> Hi,
>
> I've been working on a RichTextEdit component for kde. My original idea was
> that it could be reused and extended by applications like kmail, kjots and
> kopete, or any application that uses rich text. I thought that given a
> KPart, an app developer would get the rich text toolbar actions (such as
> bold, italic etc) for free, and just add application specific actions to a
> derived KPart.
>
> After talking with dfaure on irc it seems that's not what KParts are for,
> but I might be able to achieve that with KXMLGUIClient. I'll be looking
> into that if it's possible. I'd like to hear your thoughts on it.
>
> My progress so far is in playground now:
>
>  http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/libs/krichtext/
>
> It contains
>
> * a KRichTextEdit, which started of as KMEditor in libkdepim, and I took
> all the mail-type stuff out of it like signatures, quoting and boxing.
>

Is this enough for mail clients? For example KMail currently is unable to 
reply to HTML email without losing original formatting. That unfortunately 
forced me to use Thunderbird at work :-(
I wonder if KHTML or QWebKit widget with contentEditable=true would be 
possible here.


> * a KRichTextPart, which started out as KRichTextEditPart in
> kopete/chatwindow, but I don't know if any of the original remains. I
> didn't put the licence headers from the kopete file into this one, but I
> can put them there if neccessary.
>
> * KRichTextEditor, which is a simple demo application containing the
> KRichTextPart.
>
> There are several open issues with this stuff, but I'd like to know whether
> something like this can get into kdelibs before I spend time listing them.
> Once I know how to change the KRichTextPart into a KRichTextGuiClient I can
> start porting kjots and maybe kmeditor if tmcguire is willing and kopete.
>
> I'll add it to the 4.1 feauture plan if it can be added, along with porting
> any suitable applications to it.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Steve.