From koffice-devel Wed Oct 15 02:18:17 2003 From: Michael Fair Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 02:18:17 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Merging KWord and KPresenter X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=106620203722760 Has anyone here discussed migrating toward the rendering and editing components of KWord and KPresentor into the same KPart? Not to merge the applications since I think the available default toolsets and the UI organization of the two programs are very different, but the inherant functionality of those two applications seem so similar (each has ideas of pages with various frames/backgrounds/headers/parts embedded inside, each could use alignment tools, making columns, and font sizes).. This might already be happening (I know they share the same text rendering) but the more I look at it, the more it seems like they each would benefit from having the same underlying capabilities. KWord might not use the "transition" facilities that KPresenter uses, but I can think of a few useful cases for it. KPresenter probably wouldn't have a use for end notes... but I'm sure some bright spark can think of an innovative way to use them too. Anyway, feel free to tell me I'm smoking something and should get my head examined, and of course I'm not familar with the underlying interfaces and structures so have no clue about how much work is involved, but I wouldn't expect this work to being until after 1.4 anyway. Perhaps something for a 2.0 release where not only are the KParts sharable but maybe every application is able to actually be the same part and each application would be a predefined set of toolbars/interface UI elements for manipulating certain aspects of a document. (e.g. A "table" in KWord, is implemented using the same code that drives a "sheet" in KSpread.) I would envision that the UI interfaces would remain separate and I'm not suggesting merging the applications. It just seems that the actual rendering and manipulation of a Document/Presentation have so many common elements that both Documents and Presentations seem like the same fundamental underlying object -- not unlike the vision for an SVG document. -- Michael -- _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel