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[Michel Renon <michel.renon@xxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

First of all, congratulations to all people working on UbuntuTouch ! I 
test it for few days on a Nexus 7 and it's a very nice UI, very pleasant 
to use.

Then, my question :
I saw the current discussions about DocumentViewer, PDF support...
But I saw nothing about Office documents, except the specs of 
DocumentViewer : "Parse and display text, rtf, OpenDocument and Open 
Office XML file types "
We have no informations about what technology will be used for that. 
Maybe, it's still not defined ?

I usually use LibreOffice (and even tried to work with the design team), 
but there'll never be an Ubuntu Touch version, because of technical 
constrains.
So I tried Calligra and I've been pleased by their engine.

IMHO, the best solution to provide a support for Office files is to use 
the Calligra engine with a new UI written in QML. The Calligra team is 
already working on a QML version (a viewer) for Plasma Active.

So, Is there any plan to port Calligra engine to Ubuntu touch ?
If yes, I'll very interested to help create an UX/UI [1].

And for the future, Calligra Engine would also provide a strong 
foundation for creating editors on tablets and desktop (an 
"UbuntuOffice" ?? ;-)
I have an idea to create a special kind of drawing software, and with 
such an engine, it would be much easier ;-)


Cheers,
Michel


[1] if you want to see some examples of my UX ideas, just ask me !