[scribus-dev] cloud Scribus

[David Bolack]

On 10/12/2011 02:35 PM, Andreas Vox wrote:

> A) Scribus running locally but storing documents and images in the cloud
> B) Scribus running in a VM on a server and exporting the VM's screen as remote desktop (eg. NX)
> C) Scribus running on the server but exporting only commandline-like operations via web (apply template, change stories or images, export pdf etc.)
> D) Rewriting Scribus as a webapp.
> Of this B) is already possible. I'd like to see a combination of A) and C) which could be achieved with little effort. The challenge is to find a clever organization of texts, images and document templates on the server and build a collaborative workflow + webapp around it.

I would suggest that A can be handled via applications like Jungledisk 
right now - though I suspect the idea to handle it natively isn't bad, 
but I don't know if there is a cloud agnostic api for that at this time.

Might be a fun side project. libcurl plus some logic should be enough 
top pull it off. I'll see what I can do.

I am inclined to think C would be a great deal more difficult because 
that requires some rethinking of how documents are assembled. Something 
akin to the way Quark's workflow system worked?  I dunno.