[kde-edu]: GUI policies and styles

[CPH]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 16:23, Trenton Carr wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:42:25 +0100 (MET), Arnold Kraschinski
>
> <arnold.kra67 at gmx.de> wrote:
> >> > It may be a good idea to pull some ideas together and from that put a
> >> > framework together which all relevant KDE edu apps can then use to
> >> > implement whatever policies seem appropriate.
> >> >
> >> > CPH
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > There is it again, the everlasting wish for a framework, that we still
> > don't
> > have. A long time ago Eva Brucherseifer made a suggestion with a kpart
> > based
> > application.
>
> Hello all!
>
> KMathTool has also been rewritten to be eventually slotted into a
> framework.
> Maybe a main window (KhtmlPart?) that has controls for smil2.0
> content(linear audio, visual) with kdeedu_part tools that become available
> when appropriate (no languages parts in a math section) and
> docking/browsable theory widgets.

SMIL is quite an interesting technology and would essentially make much of the 
content platform independent (e.g. OpenOffice.org 2.0 Impress will use SMIL 
to control it's slide transitions, media playing, and animations).

I think that koffice must support SMIL and SVG so that it can be compatible 
with OpenOffice.org. However I am not sure of their exact plans, but it may 
be interesting to ask them. We may then be able to develop SMIL/SVG 
multimedia apps in fullscreen mode on that platform.

CPH