Forwarding an excerpt from the thread with my conclusion for the near future:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mirek M. <[email protected]> Date: 14 March 2013 00:25 Sorry for the late response -- I promise I will have the Engineering Steering Committee's answer for you tomorrow. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Meeks <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM Subject: Re: Themes To: "Mirek M." <[email protected]> Cc: kendy <[email protected]>, Thorsten Behrens <[email protected]> Hi Mirek, On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 20:33 +0100, Mirek M. wrote: > I wasn't able to attend today's ESC call and the minutes were quite > vague, so I'd like to clear a few things up. For context, I'm quoting > the relevant part of Jaroslaw Staniek's message: Yep - so - my hope would be that around June we will have 3x interns inside SUSE one of whom may be interested in working on this - indeed we could sketch that out. > The code for Themes has not landed in > Calligra only because of not-the-highest-priority but since > then I > heard encouraging comments and no disagreement so we shall > finally > have them. If this fits LibreOffice plans we can co-develop > the > design/specifications so we'll be compatible (e.g. we can > share theme [..] there is no problem in collaborating around file-formats and the specification thereof etc. Clearly a major focus of what we do needs to be round-trip interoperability - so we can load/save these to MS formats with no data loss. > files and properly embed them in documents/templates, staying > backward-compatible with not-theme-aware software). In > addition to > defining some extensions to ODF, the specs would be in large > part > related to behaviour of the applications. I also hope some > relevant functional/unit tests could be shared. Sounds reasonable. > As a first step I propose a common wiki page (is there neutral > one or would you accept Calligra Wiki?) I don't actually care where the spec. is developed / discussed. > Are we interested in working together on a spec? > What kind of UI/design work would this require up front? As for the UI design - then, yes - it would be great to a) get the results of the Calligra thoughts already - hopefully they've done a good compatibility analysis; and b) to get a UI design to see this integrated into LibreOffice nicely. So - yes, it's certainly worth putting some effort into this - Kendy - do you think we could persuade one intern to work on this ? Thoughts ? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jaroslaw Staniek <[email protected]> Date: 16 March 2013 09:54 Subject: Re: Theme colors To: "Mirek M." <[email protected]> Thanks for the update. Yes, round-trip with MSOOXML is one requirement, though backward compatibility with ODF 1.2 or older (and thus, DOC) is important too, and can be achieved by by copying theme items into actual styles. As for the schedule, there's nothing precise because the feature while important ... it's absence does not stop users from actually being productive. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek Kexi & Calligra & KDE | http://calligra.org/kexi | http://kde.org Qt Certified Specialist | http://qt-project.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
