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[Anthony Granger <grangeranthony@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi !

So first thank you for all your research about the way to display Office
documents :)

So yes, nothing is decided yet, but we tough about Calligra because they
are working on a QML version as you very well have noticed.


We must review some things about Calligra before implement it, but I think
it is well on track for it.

I would be happy to see your UX :) And if you want to help us building the
Docviewer Application you will be welcome !

Cheers,
Anthony


2013/5/22 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 !
>
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