On 23 February 2012 13:31, Smit Patel <smitpate...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to propose a GSoC project. Here's the brief description about > project idea. > Provide a dbus API that provides an generic interface that can be used by > external bibliography engines (xbiblio, kbibtex, bibus) > Calligra words doesn't have a good way to manage references. These engines > can manage references and insert bibliography using interface provided.
Hello, That's nice idea. First question - would you see this as a project emploing databases (e.g. SQLite) and adding some GUIs? If so I am proposing a high-level layer on top of Calligra, i.e. used by Kexi (KexiDB/Predicate), because regardless of what are your ideas, Kexi _eventually_ will have bibliography module written in Kexi itself, just like LibreOffice's bibligraphy is implemented on top of LibreOffice (Base) foundations itself. Regarding dbus I am not sure it is so useful as data sharing/transmitting layer, it's an IPC after all. It's not like ODBC and never was designed for this. From time to time I see such attempts to relate these two distinct tools. Moreover, a better approach at the moment would be to discuss what 'good managing references' means for us, and not such a detail as IPC/storage. I mentioned Predicate only because of assumed integration with Calligra, to show that there're tools in hand already available. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
