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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Flake to koffice/libs
From:       Jaham <jaham () gmx ! net>
Date:       2006-05-25 13:39:33
Message-ID: 200605251539.33675.jaham () gmx ! net
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On Thursday 25 May 2006 15:07, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Thursday 25 May 2006 14:20, Jaham wrote:
> > > - Who will create a bspline shape that all apps can use, and provides
> > > the tools to use it.   I don't have an opinion if that means create a
> > > new library or just put those classes in flake.
> >
> > Seems i missed something. Where do we need a bspline shape?
>
> BSpline is technically the same as 'path'. It just hints at the
> implementation method.
> We need it whereever we want to use non-square shapes; which practically
> means just about everywhere.

That is also possible with path based objects. Look at all the different 
shapes in Karbon, these are all path based, even the circle/ellipse ones.
See, i am not against a bspline based shape, but your use cases do not require 
that by all means.

>
> I talked to tbscope on IRC just a couple of hours ago and he will start to
> port Karbon to compile in trunk. We hope that the data structures and
> ideas from that application can be applied to have a good bspline shape
> inside of flake so we can reuse that shape for svg or whatever editing in
> all KOffice apps.

Yay for the porting effort! :-)

Ciao Jan
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