Re: [tdf-discuss] Vector/Raster Graphics Editing (was: UI proposal)

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 ¢

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.


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