[Clipart] KDE and OCAL

[Tobias Jakobs]

Am Freitag, den 15.04.2005, 16:15 -0700 schrieb Aaron Seigo:
> hi everyone =)
> 
Hi Aaron,

nice to see a KDE programmer here. Some time ago I mailed the Klipart[1]
project, but it looks like it is dead. :(
> 
> ok, so why am i posting? well, i think that what you folks are doing here is 
> great, and within that context i'd to help make a couple things happen:
> 
> 	0. generate more support for OCAL
> 	1. improve the experience for KDE users
> 
> i think i (and others in the KDE project) can possibly help both of the above 
> things happen by opening the doorway to the OCAL collection for KDE users.
> 
> off the top of my head, i can think of a few things that could be done between 
> KDE and OCAL (and i'm sure you'll have a lot more ideas too =):
> 
> 	- providing a KDE application that can browse the archives (online/offline?) 
> of OCAL. this could be made a generic part that other applications, such as 
> KOffice or Quanta, could use to allow seamless access to OCAL images.
> 	- provide a GetHotNewStuff feed on OCAL's web site to make it easy (e.g. a 
> couple clicks) for KDE users to grab the latest / greatest stuff from OCAL.
> 	- mention OCAL as a resource in our documentation of appropriate 
> applications, such as the KOffice apps.
> 	- explore ways to cross-polinate between kde-look.org (and the upcoming 
> kde-docs.org) and OCAL
> 
That sounds all very nice.

> and of course, there are opportunities for making public announcements about 
> this. now while i personally will not be able to do all of the above with 
> just my own two hands, i can perhaps help facilitate this by pitching in some 
> of my own efforts and (probably resulting in greater effect) finding the 
> "right people" in KDE to work with OCAL. reciprocation would be welcome, of 
> course.
> 
> looking at your roadmap, it seems that some of these things will become (more) 
> feasable with the realization of milestones 13 and 17, but i find it's 
> usually good to start figuring out the details sooner rather than later.
> 
Unfortunately the DMS ist paused at the moment, until the Inkscape gtkmm
stuff, he is working on, done. If you have a good PHP/Perl guru he would
be very welcome.

> so... there's my brain.dump() ... what are your thoughts?

[1] http://users.skynet.be/kborrey/klipart/klipart.html
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