[Kommander-devel] Kommander in KOffice

[Cedric Pasteur]

Hi,
I'm the guy who created and designed most parts of KFormDesigner (KFD), which 
is used to design forms in kexi. There was also a standalone version (similar 
to Qt Designer) created, but I'm not sure it still works.
I already sent a mail on this list two years ago about the possibility to 
reuse KFD in Kommander 2. 

KFD development has been very slow for the last past two years, in particular 
because of school which didn't left me a lot of free time.
However, I think i'll have some free time this year (except in septemeber and 
october) to develop again, and the idea to rewrite kfd to make it usable in 
kommander, together with kross, really motivates me.

We (the Kexi team, mostly jaroslaw staniek, who is the second dev involved in 
kfd, and sebastian sauer, who created kross) already had planned to rewrite 
kfd  in order to use it to also create reports, if this appeared to be the 
best solution (other possible solution was reusing koText).
So, I think this rewrite could benefit both projects, as weel as other 
projects (Sebastian mentionned amarok guys are interested) which need some 
scripting solution with support for displaying user-created forms. With our 
experience combined, we could avoid many design mistakes, etc.

Sebastian and I are connected to #kexi channel on freenode, so you could join 
us to talk about that.