From koffice-devel Sat Nov 30 23:29:00 2002 From: Sean McGlynn Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 23:29:00 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: Explanation on WP vs DTP modes in KWord (Re: Kde-cvs-digest request for information) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=103873640421957 On Saturday 30 November 2002 21:37, Dirk Schönberger wrote: > One of the things I absolutely don't like about the "professional" DTP > applications is their non-sharing attitude and their > non-interchangeability, i.e. all applications are specialist tools, but the > general useability, like common file formats, The native Scribus file format is XML based, liked any KOffice app, so that wouldn't be a problem. > common clipboard exchange, Scribus has a compile-time option (I think) to support drag and drop when running with KDE. I guess that means it uses the XDND standard. As a Qt app, I guess its clipboard features are similar to (or easily changeable to) those of KDE apps. > common clipart/graphics support, I don't think that's a problem and I'm sure Scribus would improve in this area if it were a KOffice app. > common GUI ..., is non-existant. Even as an existing Qt app, Scribus can look just like a KDE app (I've seen the piccies of it using the Keramik style :-) Of course, if it "were" a KDE app then that point is irrelevant. > Somehow I don't have the impression that the Scribus authors are interested > much in this direction. This make it rather difficult as a KOffice > component, at least IMHO. Got to say that I disagree with you here Dirk. From my (non-KOffice-developer :-) point of view, I think Scribus would fit perfectly into KOffice as a dedicated DTP component. I know there's some overlap with KWord's features, but I'm sure a little bit of refactoring could sort that out. Of course I could be totally wrong in all this; it's just my personal impression. It might also be the case that if a native KDE version of Scribus was to be created, it would be better as a standalone app rather than a part of KOffice. Naturally all this discussion is moot if Franz Schmid isn't interested in a KDE version of Scribus and no-one else is interested in creating a port. > Regards > Dirk Cheers, Sean -- Sean McGlynn sean@tmiau.com _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel