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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: OASIS file format for Krita
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-03-22 11:27:58
Message-ID: 200403221227.59685.zander () kde ! org
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On Monday 22 March 2004 11:57, dirk.schoenberger@sz-online.de wrote:
> > On Monday 22 March 2004 11:12, dirk.schoenberger@sz-online.de wrote:
> What I see currently is a collection of standalone applications which
> basically share the same storage API and a shared import/export filter
> architecture (did I miss something important?)
> I cannot really see the applications as "components" in a bigger
> framework.

Do an ls in the koffice/lib and notice the huge amount of code there. If 
you can't imagine it sharing much; perhaps you should read some more APIs 
there? :)

> > * If there's consensus among the other KOffice developers that Krita
> > has no business being in a future KOffice release, I'll be happy to
> > move to kdegraphics. It'll still be a KOffice app, because we use
> > KOffice libs.
>
> Perhaps more of KOffice base libs can be put into the core libs? So that
> standalone applications can be built usind KOffice technology, without
> actually be KOffice components?

You can't have one without having the other, so what's the point? Naming?

> I cannot speak about Krita, because I don't really understand its design
> decisions.
> In my own application (not yet released, propbaly never) I was going to
> use pure QImages as the things to render.

Read back on the koffice mailing lists (some 3 to 5 years) that solution is 
unworkable for various reasons.

> > Sodipodi/Inkscape show promise to become the vector apps of
> > choice.
>
> What's really unfortunate, because this "best of breed" application
> doesn't work in any component system. At least to me a standalon vector
> graphics application is not of much use.

To you it may not be; but there has been lots of evidence that the general 
userbase has a really different opinion about that.

- -- 
Thomas Zander
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