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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    RE: Questions about Kivo and KSpread
From:       "Scott Baye" <sbaye () new ! rr ! com>
Date:       2002-03-26 4:36:04
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: koffice-devel-admin@mail.kde.org
> [mailto:koffice-devel-admin@mail.kde.org]On Behalf Of Nathan Murphy
> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 5:04 PM
> To: koffice-devel@mail.kde.org
> Subject: Questions about Kivo and KSpread
>
> ... and suggest which stencil sets
> should be made first for Kivio and I'll get to work on
> that too.
>
> I think such an addition would be useful for making
> Kivio more viable as a solution for diagraming ideas.

Good timing, Nathan.  I just joined the mailing list two days ago to find
out if there was any work being done on Kivio.  (The name, BTW, I think is a
play on "Visio", a diagramming tool for Win.)  Kivio (Koncept) looks like
it's got a lot of potential, albeit quite lean on stencils, and I would love
to see it really take off.  I was, in fact, hoping to contribute in some
small way for now, perhaps stencil sets, although my free time is quite
limited.

I guess the stencil sets I would be most interested in seeing first are ones
representing the Unified Modeling Language http://www.uml.org/.  I've
designed several complex software systems using the UML over the past few
years of my career, and it has proven to be a very rich, expressive, yet
simple and easily-extendable language.  It covers software design concepts
from Use Cases to deployment and packaging.   It's a rather daunting task in
a short time frame, but could be tackled in several stages.  (Hey, anything
that gets me off this blasted inferior OS I seem to be shackled to...)


> Finally, what is Kugar's purpose - why is it in
> KOffice?  If I knew I would contribute a more
> meaningful icon for it.

Beats me.  I'm guessing enterprise reporting using db or ssheet backends,
somewhat similar to Crystal Reports or JD Edwards (are those cuss words
here?) reporting functionality.  Quite powerful if done correctly, big ugly
pain in the butt if it's not.

Sorry for the verbiage.

-Scott

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