[Qgis-developer] Let the Marble roll

[Martin Dobias]

On 10/12/06, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
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> Cool! The automatic label placement is one of the top missing features
> in current qgis now IMHO.
> How feasible would it be to join forces?

IMHO joining forces is very unlikely - mainly because of different
goals. While they would like to create a simple widget with limited
functionality for KDE4 applications, we want create a comlete GIS
software. You can see their main goals in an earlier post:

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2412

> I think qgis team is a bit short of resources now.

Yes, it is - and killing bugs is quite time consuming task...

> Are we sure they know about qgis?

I really don't know...

Martin

> All the best.
> pc
>
> Martin Dobias ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >
> > here are recent results from KDE guys and their generic widget for
> > displaying geographical maps:
> >
> > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2429
> >
> > The app looks nice, also with some basic automatic label placement.
> > What about using that widget instead of current map canvas? ;-)
> >
> > Martin
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