Just curious. Making GNOME location-aware sounds like a big thing. This report suggests that the project seems to be about the multi-timezone clock and weather candy. Is this project intended to do more location-aware features on top of the clock and weather stuff?
Good stuff here. Keep 'em coming. On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Stéphane Maniaci < [email protected]> wrote: > Web version with nothing fancier available at: > http://freesteph.info/post/2011/05/28/Location-aware-GNOME-Shell% > 3A-Weekly-report-01 > > Hello, > > Here's the first weekly report of my summer of code project: making the > Shell location-aware with a multi-timezone clock and some weather candy > later (didn't write to the shell list earlier). > > == What happened this week == > I started toying with the GNOME Shell UI, using my unexisting Javascript > skills to reproduce somehow this mockup[0]. Took me one Caltrain ride > (now my default time unit) to build a little dummy clock, as showed on > the, tada, screenshot[1]. > > Quickly realized that I really needed solid design before doing any UI, > so I tried to gather all the rockstars of #gnome-design together on > Thursday for a quick brainstorming. Nothing concrete came out of it, but > here's the point I remembered: > - Displaying time + weather for all locations isn't a good idea (we > already consume a lot of space in the date/clock popup, and we want to > keep it a popup) ; > - It's still pretty unsure where all those settings (locations CRUD, > weather config) will land in the control-center ; > - XChat doesn't record any log, damn it. > Bottom line: we need to have another meeting and define more precisely > what we want to expose to the user. > > I also downloaded geocode-glib, geoclue and libgweather in order to look > at the backend work, but didn't actually tried it out. > > Not related to GSoC, I worked on a couple of branches for PiTiVi that I > want to get merged after the awesome (pre)release that came out this > week! > > Oh, and I ran into busy Luis Villa in Caltrain last week, had a nice > half an hour chat with him! Talking about achievements! > > == What's next == > Definitely bother the design team again, while still not expecting some > actual UI sketches by the end of next week. The date/weather/timezone > thingy is a significant feature of 3.2 (pressure on me), so I expect a > lot of bikeshedding about how it should look/behave/configure. > > I would also like a little Vala/Gtk program that asks/guess a location > and then retrieve the timezone using one of the forementionned > libraries. > > == Scheduling == > I'm on time. Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés ;) > > == Problems & tips == > A big issue that comes to me after this week is collaboration ; I > thought the design of the clock could happen on some mailing list > (because you can read them offline, take time to answer, etc), but I was > told in #gnome-design that IRC was the way to go, since there was no > gnome-design mailing list and that there would be too much noise on it > anyway. This is a bit sad, since IRC is very unpractical in terms of, > talking about it, timezones, offline record, etc. I'm not a big fan of > IRC meeting + wiki logging/recording, so if anybody (and you, design > rockstars) can think of a better way to think together, let me know. > > That's a very long report, have a nice weekend! > > Cheers, > > - Stéphane. > > [0]: > > https://gitorious.org/gnome-design/gnome-design/blobs/master/mockups/clock/date-n-time.png > [1]: http://freesteph.info/public/GSoC/img/js-clock-first-try.png > [ > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > -- Regards, Allan User Experience Designer http://allancaeg.com +63 918 948 2520
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