On Wednesday, April 20, 2011 18:59:01 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not a very talkative person, so there aren't many mails to the ML, or > posts on my blog/planet about stuff I've been doing lately, so here's a > little intro (again ;) ) - > I started developing a QML UI for Calligra under a university project > funded by Nokia this spring. As its been a QML learning experience for me, > and integrating it with C++ hasn't been trivial, it took some time to get > to a semi-working state. > > While development of the QML UI is going on at a better pace than before, > and is catching up with rest of Calligra, there was this cool initiative > called Plasma Active [1] which attempts to bring KDE to a broader spectrum > of devices, including handhelds, tablets etc. Its a proud moment for us > that Plasma Active wants to showcase Calligra as a part of the first set > of Active set of applications, and so its time to push our efforts to make > Calligra shine. > > I had some discussion with Inge over this (thanks Inge for the idea), and > we concluded that the current Calligra Mobile (formerly known as > Freoffice), is functional and robust, so it would not make sense to call > the QML version as "Calligra Mobile" until it reaches that state.
Well, to be clear: We simply can't call it 'Calligra Mobile' since that name is already taken. > However, > Plasma Active gives us a good opportunity, and there comes the idea of > calling the QML UI as "Calligra Active". This is beneficial currently as > we offer our users both the mature QWidget-based UI, and a shiny QML UI, > and they can choose. > > Finally, as most of the mobile platforms Active is targeting will be > running a MeeGo variant, this will also help us to achieve goals > summarised by Suresh at > http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/calligra-devel/2011-January/000563.html. > > So, this mail is intended to - > > 1. Gather consensus to brand Calligra's QML UI as Calligra Active. +1 from me, as you said above. > 2. Move QML UI from my branch [2] to master, but we need to discuss where > to? tools/active/ is one possible alternative, what do you think? Yeah. It's not ideal, since tools/ is not the obvious place for all non- desktop UI's. But this was discussed at the sprint and the long-term solution is to split the current app directories into a core part and a desktop UI part. And then all the UI's could be placed under (say) ui/desktop, ui/mobile, etc. But until that is started, perhaps tools/ is the best short-term solution since there is already tools/mobile. > 3. Currently I'm not using any prefix for my classes. Any suggestions? > > So, lets join the Active initiative and lets make world domination a > reality. > > (NOTE: if you're a Calligra Mobile contributor, you *must* reply ;) That's you, Mani. :-) _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
