Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-22 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 22 March 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > btw, i don't know if it's come up yet but with a DataEngine driven approach > that the control plasmoid uses for all interactivity, this would make it > trivial to transfer the control plasmoid onto, say, your tablet, phone, > etc. with plasma insta

Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-22 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, March 21, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 21 March 2011, Rohan Garg wrote: > > org.calligra-suite.stage-2619, thus you will need to keep this in mind > > when accessing the interface.I'm also going to send a seprate mail to > > the Calligra guys as to why they are appending the pro

Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-21 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 21 March 2011, Rohan Garg wrote: > org.calligra-suite.stage-2619, thus you will need to keep this in mind > when accessing the interface.I'm also going to send a seprate mail to > the Calligra guys as to why they are appending the process id, since > it just makes dbus calls more cumberso

Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-21 Thread Rohan Garg
Hey Actually there *is* a way to paint the presentation, calligra provides a method called exportPageThumbnail, it only appears when you start the presentation ( which is quite undestandable ) and this should help you paint some previews of the slides. But, there is a huge issue that i currently se

Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-21 Thread Sinny Kumari
Hi todd, Can you please share your IRC nick? Thanks On 3/21/11, Sinny Kumari wrote: > Oh!, really thanks todd for making it clear to me. > I read the idea > http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_Plasma-based_Presentation_View > once again and realised that what you said is true. >

Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-21 Thread Sinny Kumari
Oh!, really thanks todd for making it clear to me. I read the idea http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_Plasma-based_Presentation_View once again and realised that what you said is true. I think what Aaron suggested (using kpart) is good and implementing it will be not much difficult.

Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-21 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 21 March 2011, Sinny Kumari wrote: > I think the suggestions you gave are for displaying a plasmoid inside > kpresenter using a plasma kpart just like skrooge does it. However > this is not what the idea says. > > Sorry if I was not clear in my e-mail, but we want to implement it as > a

Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-21 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Sinny Kumari wrote: > I think the suggestions you gave are for displaying a plasmoid inside > kpresenter using a plasma kpart just like skrooge does it. However > this is not what the idea says. Do you mean your idea or the original idea? I was the one who wrote

Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-21 Thread Sinny Kumari
I think the suggestions you gave are for displaying a plasmoid inside kpresenter using a plasma kpart just like skrooge does it. However this is not what the idea says. Sorry if I was not clear in my e-mail, but we want to implement it as a plasmoid, a normal plasmoid on the Desktop. presentation

Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-21 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, March 21, 2011, Thorsten Zachmann wrote: > Hello Sinny, > > On Monday, March 21, 2011 04:52:08 Sinny Kumari wrote: > > CC'ing to plasma-devel, thanks for the suggestion todd. > > > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:31 AM, todd rme wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Sinny Kumari

Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-21 Thread Thorsten Zachmann
Hello Sinny, On Monday, March 21, 2011 04:52:08 Sinny Kumari wrote: > CC'ing to plasma-devel, thanks for the suggestion todd. > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:31 AM, todd rme wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Sinny Kumari wrote: > >> HI! > >> > >> I am working on idea > >> http://commun

Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-20 Thread Sinny Kumari
Hi Thorsten, Even I want to go with the first choice of using D-Bus communication as it also provides better compatibility even if things in kpresenter might change internally. I was just wondering, if there is a way kpresenter can be started in the background without actually showing its UI so we

Re: Plasma-based presentation view for calligra-stage

2011-03-20 Thread Sinny Kumari
CC'ing to plasma-devel, thanks for the suggestion todd. On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:31 AM, todd rme wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Sinny Kumari wrote: >> HI! >> >> I am working on idea >> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_Plasma-based_Presentation_View >> >> In order to