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List:       kde-active
Subject:    Calligra Active Roadmap
From:       boud () valdyas ! org (Boudewijn Rempt)
Date:       2011-08-13 8:37:35
Message-ID: 201108131037.35205.boud () valdyas ! org
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On Saturday 13 August 2011 Aug, Sebastian K?gler wrote:

> Do you already have any dates in mind for the 2.4 release? We're planning \
>  Plasma Active One for October, so it's probably a good idea to think \
> what we  can do until then. 

Yes... October is our beta phase, with a release in November or December. \
Much depends on the development of the desktop version.

> We could ship calligra active as some kind of techpreview 
> with then, for example. If we make clear that it's not stabilized yet, \
> but an  Alpha or whatever we want to call it then, is still quite useful \
> to have. What  do you think about this?

That will probably be necessary.

> In the OS integration track we have for Balsam done, and we can easily \
> push  out updates. The packages are built with the active flag in the \
> KDE:Active  repository, those are 32bits x86 builds. This makes it easy \
> to test on the  device, you can just install calligra and will get the \
> Active version. 
> Calligra performas pretty well on the devices I've worked with. UI / \
> touch  integration lacks a bit here and there, but it's basically really \
> stable and  already a high quality app. Two things that spring to my mind \
> that would be  nice improvements:
> - touched up layout of the welcome page, the lists look useful, but are 
> currently a bit uninviting. Technically not really complicated and \
> something  like adding a nice page title would probably already go a long \
> way. Adding  Documents from Nepomuk there as well.

I think that's shantanu's top priority. All the other things (find, select, \
copy) aren't that urgent, but getting the documents in is :-).

> - we need to make sure it become the default app for documents throughout \
> the  UI, so tap on documents belonging to an activity in Contour open \
> nicely in the  suitable Calligra app. This also doesn't sound \
> complicated, but I haven't  checked yet.

I don't know how the contour/plasma active system works really, but if it's \
similar to KDE itself, then it's just a matter of configuring the \
associated app priority correctly :-)


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Boudewijn Rempt
http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org, http://www.boudewijnrempt.nl


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