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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: OASIS file format for Krita
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-03-24 6:54:25
Message-ID: 406130A1.4040202 () acm ! org
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Thomas Zander wrote:

>>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?

The point is what shipped with the suite.  It is perfectly OK to have 
additional applications based on KOffice libraries.  But, Krita (and 
probably Karbon14 as well) are becoming large artist's applications which 
are not what the average office suite user needs.  No complaints at all 
about the existence of these applications.  My point is that the suite 
needs to ship with a simpler graphics application that can do simple stuff 
for DTP and presentation slides.  That is: Artist != Office-Suite-User. 
Office-Suite-Users do not need DSP (convolution) based water color painting 
simulation -- it is nice but not needed by this class of user.

Also, I would like to see an integrated SVG and Pixel artist application 
that meets my needs.  I don't know if I speak for a minority of one or if 
there are a lot of other people that can't draw freehand with a mouse or 
have no idea why they should use a computer to draw freehand.  I continue 
to use Xfig even though it is outdated because it has digital control and 
editing of everything that you draw.  This feature should also be available 
in the simple SVG/Pixel graphics application in the KOffice suite since it 
would be reasonable to presume that a lot of Office-Suite-Users probably 
can't draw freehand with a mouse either.

It would be preferable if these two classes of applications could share a 
common file format and if this was OASIS (or a superset of it).

--
JRT
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