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List:       kde-active
Subject:    Plasma Active Roadmap
From:       notmart () gmail ! com (Marco Martin)
Date:       2011-08-12 10:21:01
Message-ID: CAD6_Bov=cb+KSV-aT+kd0C3859tunVCKUq_Njkg4gZrgPeywbg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Calligra Active is a subset of Plasma Active. Following discussions with Aaron, we \
> decided to sit down and make kind of a roadmap with prioritized features for \
> Calligra Active. I'll add it to the community wiki as well.

rocking :)

> After discussion with the maintainer, Shantanu, we arrived at this:
> 
> Mission statement:
> 
> The first release of Calligra Active will be a capable, performant document, \
> finger-friendly viewer for tablets that can pan and zoom smoothly and display \
> office documents but not PDF. 
> For the first release (with Calligra 2.4), open tasks are:
> 
> ? ?* integreation with the desktop search system
> ? ?* include a presentation mode (needs some hacking in stage itself to reuse \
> stage's presentation mode) ? ?* support search
> ? ?* support select
> ? ?* support copy

i may add
* Share Like Connect integration  (if using qml it's literally 3 lines ;))

> Long term goals are:
> 
> ? ?* support PDF (unless plasma active already has a finger-friend pdf viewer, we \
> intend to use the same frontend for finding documents, and poppler for display) ? \
> ?* support editing of text ? ?* support editing of graphics

at the moment there is okular installed.
it's not bad, a more touch ready version would be good tough.
now i don't know how much of okular can be recycled (being quite
depending from qwidget) would be good with not reinventing an
application from scratch, but i trust you guys there on what can or
can't be done :)

Cheers,
Marco Martin


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