From koffice  Tue Feb 23 18:49:23 1999
From: Holger Baxmann <baxmann () baxmann ! com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:49:23 +0000
To: koffice
Subject: Re: KPage...hmmm. :)
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hi,

i'm absolutly on your way. But after 30 hours merged with Linux and the
code - it's enough for today.
I will answer with full content tomorrow - I'm thinking also about the
backend: content management (my home are DBMS).

cu

bax


Kevin Forge schrieb:

> Holger Baxmann wrote:
> > great idea, i think. J.N.P. could write the specification, think a
> > little about the design and functions and i'll help to implement
> > this stuff.
>
> OK.  You asked for it :).
>
> Basically it should be a Word processor interface.  Definitely KOffice
> rather than just KDE because corba makes plugging relatively
> easy to write.
>
> Why plugging ?  Because you can do almost anything in HTML and no
> one individual or even small group can reasonably expect to
> automate all of it.  So things like an image chopped into segments
> ( but appearing whole ) where each segment links to another page
> would be a plugin by itself.  This way each of the details can be
> done by a specialist
>
> Now to the overall design of the central program itself.  There
> are apps that already handle some aspects of this job OK.  There
> is Webmaker which dose a good job of adding tags to text on the
> fly.  KFM is OK for displaying finished HTML.
>
> What is needed is that middle ground where you are editing a live
> page.  You change the size of text on screen by selecting it and
> clicking an icon forinstance.  These 3 pieces should plug together
> for a complete interface.
>
> recent links on left border.
> _________________________________________________
> ||Menu and iconbar.  lots more icons than normal|
> ||2 rows perhaps.                               |
> ||______________________________________________|
> ||                                              |
> ||                                              |
> ||                                              |
> ||                                              |
> ||                                              |
> ||      Live Page here                          |
> ||                                              |
> ||                                              |
> ||                                              |
> ||                                              |
> ||______________________________________________|
> |                                               |
> |               HTML source here                |
> |_______________________________________________|