Hi, On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <b...@valdyas.org> wrote:
> On Monday 03 October 2011 Oct, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > > 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 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. > > > > 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? > > We do have a roadmap: > http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Roadmaps/2.4/Roadmap. This link has been > posted to both the Calligra and the active mailing lists. And I think it > still is valid. > Yes, I haven't overlooked the roadmap, just wanted comments, thats all :) > > Go for viewer first. Integrate pdf viewing inside Calligra Active. It's not > difficult, it has been done before (with Harmattan Office), and now that the > N9 is shipping, that could should be made public really soon. > > Then all we need to do is re-use the pdf-viewing code in Harmattan Office > in Calligra active, and we've got one, great document viewer with one user > interface. > Ah ok, I will discuss technical details of that without CC'ing active. But I guess atleast for Active 1.0 we won't be able have CA supporting PDFs. > > But after that, I would go for adding editing functionality to Calligra > Active. People are using tablets mainly for consumption, but light editing > should be possible. Ok, and just to let other people know, editing might take some time to come, so yeah, I will try to focus on Viewing only for now (until it becomes properly integrated). > > -- > Boudewijn Rempt > http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel > Cheers, Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com
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