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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Questions about Kivo and KSpread
From:       Eva Brucherseifer <eva () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-26 12:31:48
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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...)

Hi Scott,

some time ago someone (I think it was wildfox@kde.org) told me, that dia 
stencils can be imported to kivio. dia is the corresponding tool within the 
gnome project and is at the moment the only usuable one due to its good 
collection of stencils including UML stencils. It also has complete dialogs 
to add data to the stencils. Only the usubility and of course the look&feel 
is a bit difficult. Maybe it is possible to share the stencils somehow with 
dia?

Cheers,
eva

>
> > 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
>
> > Nathan
> >
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