On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Vít Pelčák <v...@pelcak.org> wrote:
> 2011/10/3 Shantanu Tushar Jha <jhahon...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > > > (Cross posting as the topic might be of interest to both MLs) > > > > There was recently some discussion on the Active ML about Calligra Active > > and how to make the user experience better. > > Aaron Seigo had an interesting suggestion in the mail he sent [1] which > > says- > > > > " > > but imho the most important thing is for these > > projects to focus on being amazing document _viewers_. > > " > > I thought, Okular is for that. Why should I have Calligra installed? > What is advantage? To have bazilion of viewers each being able to open > only specific document? > > > I gave it a thought and realised that we need to discuss this. The reason > I > > can think of is that a larger percentage of the use cases are for viewing > > the documents instead of editing them. > > Hm. And if user has associated LibreOffice already (very likely scenario)? > > > I'd like views from the Calligra team about this, should we continue what > > we're doing now (that is, try to improve the viewing to the most we can > and > > then go to editing), or concentrate only on viewing? > > Sorry, but I'm missing point here. > > What should make me switch from LibreOffice to Calligra? Focus of > Calligra on viewing documents and lack of editing tools? > I think you misunderstood what I said. The discussion was *only* for Calligra Active, the QML Touch UI for Calligra. Desktop Calligra has everything from viewing to editing to document embedding and whatever you need :) So no need to worry ;) > I thought, that the major advantage of Calligra/Koffice lies in fact, > that, unlike LibreOffice, it doesn't carry burden of legacy code. > > What type of user is your target? Mainstream will have LibreOffice > already installed. What is advantage? Faster startup time when startup > of application means only insignificant portion of whole time spent in > program? > > Decision is still yours, but personally, I don't consider focus on > viewing as good idea at all. > > Regards > Vit Pelcak > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > For all wankers from US Government reading my personal stuff > according to fascist laws like Patriot Act: > Make the world a better place. Go jump off a bridge. > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel > Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com
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