Calligra/Calligra Mobile

See also: Kexi Mobile. and : [FreOffice Blog]

Calligra Mobile Suite Planning

As FreOffice is maturing and getting better day by day it would be good to start to develop the Calligra way of working in planning future development of FreOffice and aligning with the Calligra release plans. Currently the code base is all part of Calligra trunk under tools. We think it would best fit into Calligra as a mobile edition of the suite and we could consider relocating or structuring FreOffice as mobile UI. We have been discussing that it would also be a good time to consider renaming FreOffice to align more closer to Calligra. Calligra Mobile is an option which might align with Calligra. It would be good to hear your opinion about this way of development for FreOffice.

Key Next Steps

One of the key and fundamental next step in development of Calligra Mobile suite is to make it end user ready (as mobile clients in Maemo, MeeGo, etc, environments). This basically means that it would require atleast the following from my perspective:

Clean up the code architecturally and make it clean and modular (Already being actively developed by Mani and Jaroslaw and more)
Ensure there are no crashes in the UI and is stable
Make the mobile office stable and address some of the usability issues identified by the analysis made so far
Identify and Document the APIs required to use Calligra backend and agree these to be become API Calligra suite will provide
Agree if we should merge the IRC channel(currently #FreOffice @ Freenode) or just keep the mobile stream and desktop discussions parallel
Clean up the UI plug-in architecture and make the current plug-ins stable and utilize only stable plugins for the next release
Update the software based on end user feedback and improve usability issues which are stopping from using the FreOffice for real world use cases
For Maemo 5 move the application from development edition to end user ready version and get real users to use
For MeeGo environment Move the current Qt version of FreOffice on Maemo 5 with minimal updates and repackaging into MeeGo platform 1.2 (Under development)
Later plan to enhance the UI by developing QML based UI for MeeGo Platform and contribute as a reference implementation for Office viewer there
In future: MeeGo has multiple Ux environments and we would like to enhance the Mobile Ux to scalable to other ux if time permits.
Others, please add any other wish list or things I have missed out..

Contributors

Core Software: Manikandaprasad Chandrasekar(Mani), Lassi Nieminen(Lassi), Boudewijn Rempt, marijn kruisselbrink(Marijn), Jaroslaw Staniek and Suresh Chande,

UI Usability enhancement and Graphics: Mitul Bhat, Yugu

Student projects

QMLified Mobile UI for MeeGo Platform- Shantanu Tushar Jha

Work in Progress http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=calligra.git&a=shortlog&h=refs/heads/mobile-qml-shantanu

Plugin development for Calligra Mobile - VTU Students

Spell checker
Search plugin to online search
wiki lookup for Keywords
data type identifier based on text parsing (email id, phone numbers, location, date, name(contact lookup)) and integration to mobile interfaces to access and invoke corresponding applications

Usability Enhancement of Calligra Mobile for N900 - SJCE Students

Usability Studies of FreOffice - Symbiosis Institute Of Design and IIIT-Bangalore

Implement Dictionary/Thesaurus functionality for Calligra Mobile - Kaushal + NN

Identify the Open Source component that can be used for this
Define the Architecture how this can be implemented
Develop the UI and integrated with the Dicitionary backend
Test and Debug the software
General Tasks: Calligra Mobile Fine tuning and Bug Fixing

Integrations Calligra MObile to Mobile device enablers such as messaging infrastructure

Enable from the document viewer to share the document over email and different messaging infrastructure
Integrate SMS interface to update Spreadsheet data and access data from a specific spreadsheet in the device.

Accelerometer based Document navigation for Calligra MObile

Utilise the mobile device accelerometer to provide advanced user interface to navigate the document such as Spreadsheet and Document (Presentation already exist)
Define the UI and Implement
Mature the UI and Testing for Usability

Document scanner plugin for Calligra MObile- scan real world text documents and convert it to ODT document

Investigate OCR based scanning backend( Tesseract / online service based)
Define the UI for Capturing the document and Converting to different Language
Hook up the UI with Calligra backend to create ODT Documents.
General Tasks: Calligra Mobile Fine tuning and Bug Fixing

More to be added here

Student contributors

Afaque Hussain , Ajay Pratap, Arjun , Gopalakrishna Bhat, Hari, Kaushik, Kaushal, Kumar, Pramod S G, Pratik Vyas, Sugnan Prabhu , Sunpreet