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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: OASIS file format for Krita
From:       Sven Langkamp <longamp () reallygood ! de>
Date:       2004-03-25 15:40:12
Message-ID: 200403251640.12432.longamp () reallygood ! de
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Am Wednesday 24 March 2004 10:24 schrieb dirk.schoenberger@sz-online.de:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Ok; that might be a reasonable assumption; but I fail to see why we
> > should dumb-down the office-suite because users won't use features; we
> > just have to make sure that the simple things stay simple usability-wise.
> > What concerns me more is that the simple things should be possible in the
> > first place. With this I mean that we should not make the mistake that
> > artsd made; create a really nice app that does lots of thins quite-ok,
> > but fails to do the thing most users use it for really well.
>
> Or have some more mix and match, ie. components for
>
> - text editor - simple, advanced
> - image editor - simple, advanced
> - vector editor - simple, advanced?
I think this would be the best. The Krita (and Karbon) backend could be moved 
to an external library. You could have a KPart which can be embeded into 
several applications e.g. in Krita, Kolourpaint, Kontact whiteboard or maybe 
someone wants to have an application with GIMP-feeling. Every app could pick 
out the features it needs.

This is already done in Kate. You have a big range of apps using Kate (Kate, 
Quanta, KDevelop, Kile ... )

Sven
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