On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 14:01 +0200, RGB ES wrote: > Koffice do both, raster (with krita) and vector (with karbon14) > editing. And they have a great concept called "flakes" that gives you > the ability to call any koffice component inside any koffice app. For > instance, you can have vector layers con krita, or bitmap layers on > karbon... or kword layers on both. > But build something like that is a HUGE work: they started several > years ago with the "port" (it is more a rewrite from scratch) to qt4 > and the work is still far from being complete. > Even if editing any kind of graphics is a "nice to have" feature, I > think LibO need to build a solid base first. There are already good > open source apps to do the job so integrating with those apps > (properly embed/display/export-to-pdf of svg/eps files, for example) > will pay more than going for "the one office suite to rule them all". > We need to make what we have rock solid before going for more. The big > risk of adding every possible feature is to end with something like > this: > http://www.inventosabsurdos.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/trinacria-cutlery.jpg > pretty, but useless. > Just my 2 ยข
I agree with this in principle. Really the long term aim should be to get LibO to run in a cell phone on cell phone technology. If we don't we could be chasing a subset of a smaller and diminishing market. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
