Hi everybody! :) As you're likely aware, over the last few months, i (with the assistance of a couple of others) have been working on a new application for Calligra, by the name of Calligra Gemini. For those who don't know, it is an application encapsulating the Words and Stage components in a user interface designed to be able to work on touch enabled devices, and able to switch between that and the traditional desktop ui (hence also the name, gemini being the conceptual name for these dual-ui applications, which started with Krita Gemini). The branch in which it sits contains a number of changes to the rest of Calligra, which has enabled the creation of Calligra Gemini, and given the reviewboard entry for those changes has now reached shipping status we are now at the point where the rest of that branch needs to be considered. It is no secret that this work has been made possible by Intel sponsoring KO to do this work, but my personal goal is none the less to continue supporting it and working on it after this period ends, though obviously i won't have quite so much time to do so since it'll be in my spare time rather than a full time situation. That said, i have found myself in the situation that i am now doing all of my writing using Calligra Gemini, and as such i would like others to be able to do that too, and preferably soon.
My proposal is thus: - As many people as possible have a try at compiling and running Calligra Gemini to see it running (you'll need very up to date libgit2 and libqgit2 packages (0.21.1 and 0.2.1 respectively), available for opensuse here[1], and for others i expect it'll be available from somewhere as well) - A merge of the calligra-gemini-ko branch into master asap - I will offer myself as maintainer for Calligra Gemini and the Qt Quick components that go with them (unless Arjen or Shantanu has objections to the latter half, of course, given they wrote the majority of it) I am currently working on a demo video of Calligra Gemini, and will be doing some more blogging, and if we can get this merge happening soon, i'll also produce an article for the dot on the topic (something which was suggested to me after my first blog entry about the application last month). Look forward to hearing back from you all :) [1] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:leinir:branches:KDE:Unstable:Extra -- ..Dan // Leinir.. http://leinir.dk/ Co- existence or no existence - Piet Hein _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
