[kplato] Re: another project application

[Thomas Zander]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:44:59PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> Thomas Zander <zander@planescape.com> writes:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> > Extra documents that are internal to the document are included into
> > the tar.gz file since its an archive, and the normal approuch would be
> > to untar the archive and take out maindoc.xml for MrProject.
> 
> What kind of other data is this and in what format is it? Could it be
> something that could be used outside KDE Office? 

Other data could be included pictures (of any kind naturally), and 
included KWord/KSPread docs etc.

> > In KDE this is all as easy as speaking to the file via a kio-slave
> > which does the (un)tarring un demand.
> 
> I guess gnome-vfs will handle this transparently too, so this might
> not be a problem. Especially if the rest of the information can be
> used aswell.

Great ;)
If you want to check, download a kword doc which has the same structure:
 http://kdewebcvs.nebsllc.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/koffice/kword/demos/flatland.kwd?rev=1.2&content-type=text/plain

  
> > The internal pieces of the file format need to be discussed in levels
> > of hierarchy and contents. I don't know which tags are needed for our
> > project since the full specification is not yet decided. (you know how
> > that is with OSS project, and holiday time ;)
> 
> Hehe, I know :)
> 
> As I take it from reading your document based on discussions (nice
> work) we have similar and the same goals (even if we haven't been as
> good as you guys on getting them printed). I think we can both gain
> much on cooperate on most levels (except from implementing since we
> clearly have different goals there).
> 
> I hope this will lead to both projects getting better and strengthens
> both KDE and GNOME with a great project management tool each.

Same here ;)

Now for the stupid questions: (I don't know Gnome very well..)
Is your project OO? (what language)
if so, do you have some documentation on your internal object structure?
I am thinking about relations/methods and project Hierarchy... (the stuff
we are currently trying to figure out)

Is the target of the MrProject to interact with other components, like:
- calendering app   (planner)
- mailing app       (mailing appointments)
- spreadsheet and other office apps.

etc.

Since DCOP is getting some extra functionality, an extra SOAP plugin, 
I expect to see interaction with .NET applications before the year ends,
is that something MrProject is concerned with, or are you more about
getting a good Linux project.

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new