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On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Heena Mahour <heena...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Kevin, > Please give suggestion and could you please elaborate which plasmoids(apart > from notes sharing using akonadi) are to be created for this project? > ========== > *GSoC'13 Project Proposal* > > > *Name: * Heena Mahour > *Email:* heena...@gmail.com > *IRC nick*: stack3457 > *Location: * New Delhi, India. > > > *Prposal Title:* * Plasma Workspace Integration for Akonadi* > > *Motivation fr proposal:* > > Plasma Workspace is very well designed to accommodate various panels, > widgets, etc. on the desktop and has seen many changes since KDE 4.1 in the > plasma design and architecture. Its developer friendly code-base allows > various programmers to easily create custom plasmoids which can be > distributed as a small bundle and be easily integrated into the plasma > workspace. > > With introduction of Qt Quick/QML in Qt 4.7, the gap between the developers > and UI designers got narrowed down with its rich set of QML elements and > intuitive declarative QML language. QML allows designers to create fluid > like animated UIs very quickly. And most importantly, the animations happen > without the slightest glitch. The Javascript/C++ bundle efficiently handles > all the back-end implementation, leaving the designers to concentrate on > the animations and UI simplicity. > > The aim of this project is to have multiple working Plasma Workspace > integration bits and pieces This idea is about working and completing > several smaller items for workspace integration > A great advantage by it it is reduce the code maintenance effort for the > KDE community. The plasmoids written in QML (for eg to store data in > Akonadi) will have considerably less code as QML allows the creation of > fluid UIs in a powerful declarative way. > > I’ve been using Linux for quite a long time, but I just became a KDE user > in the beginning of the last year when I participated in season of kde > 2012.My enthusiasm towards KDE initially led me to learning Qt (which I > grasped very quickly) and made a lot of small applications with it (like a > kde plasmoid [1])for some experience. I have already been a fan of the KDE > Plasma amongst other KDE features, and this project is the bull's eye > towards my interest. I see a perfect opportunity to develop some real life > desktop user interface with the latest technology of QtQuick through this > project. > > *Implementation plan:* > > Initially the steps were chosen for this project: > 1)KDE currently has multiple notes plasmoids to store user notes. The best > looking plasmoid is currently the one that plasma ships, but it does not > use akonadi to store notes. It would be better to have one plasmoid which > looks awesome and stores data in Akonadi and retiring other plasmoids. > 2)?? (Please suggest) > > The above mentioned plasmoid will be transformed to either QML/Javascript > or QML /C++ in this project. > > *Tentative Timeline:* > > May 1 onwards : Read plasma code and get familiar with the current > plasma/plasmoids code and the plasma library. > May 13 - May 26 : Practice painting the widets in qml . Probably write one > or two practice plasmoids to get a first hand feel of how they're made. > May 26 - June 9: Start with the actual re-factoring of the plasmoids into > QML/C++ or QML/Javascript (whichever is most suitable). I plan to invest > one-two weeks with the first two-three plasmoids . > June 10 -June 30 :Remaining widgets may be covered within this week each. > July 1- July 7: Testing each plasmoid and when it undergoes the > re-factoring. > July 8 -July 14 :Do the final adjustment ,fix bugs . > July 15 onwards : work on documentation > > > *About Me:* > > I'm a second year engineering student, pursuing B.Tech. in Computer > engineering(COE) from Delhi Technological University(Formerly Delhi College > of Engineering),New Delhi,India. > > I’ve been using Linux for quite a long time, but I just became a KDE user > in the beginning of the last year when I participated in season of kde > 2012[3].In*Season of KDE 2012*, I worked on Kde-edu game 'pairs' where I > have done the following :- >> Developed layout for the editor of the game pairs. >> Developed themes for the game –pairs >> Learned the basics of the project building & concept of make files . > Mentor:*Marco Calignano.* > Status : Complete and my themes are also available as add-on at > kde-look.org <http://kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=647>. > KDE is the project I've been most familiar to and interested in, as I see > most of cutting edge technologies wrapped up in KDE, and of course, I love > the awesome community commitment and dedication towards the same. > > I've been following few mailing lists and the development in trunk since > half an year. I have contributed to kde by providing pastebin > scripts,various themes for kde-game -pairs and a plasmoid shuffle [4][1] to > get a hold of KDE code-base and the development process of KDE. > > Besides,I have also tried to implement a tic tace toe game using qml [5] > and a text editor [6].Apart from these,I love blogging and I have blogged > about my projects at blogspot [7] > > Besides coding, I love painting,music and exploring new open source > technologies. > > > *Links:* > > [1] http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/shuffle?content=156491 > [2] http://community.kde.org/Plasma/QMLPorting#Porting_Plasmoids_to_QML > [3] http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/StatusReports#Heena > [4]http://kde-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=heena&action=profile > [5] > http://sourceforge.net/p/virtualk/code/ci/1e774cae13ee04d1b93bd31066fd3ba0ed9475bf/tree/tic-tac-toe/ > [6] > http://sourceforge.net/p/virtualk/code/ci/1e774cae13ee04d1b93bd31066fd3ba0ed9475bf/tree/texteditor_1/ > <http://sourceforge.net/p/virtualk/code/ci/1e774cae13ee04d1b93bd31066fd3ba0ed9475bf/tree/texteditor_1/> > [7] http://www.heenamahour.blogspot.in/ > > -- > -Heena > Season of kde'12 participant > Delhi College of Engineering(COE),India > http://about.me/heena.mahour > http://heenamahour.blogspot.in > _______________________________________________ > KDE PIM mailing list kde-...@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim > KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/ -- Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org Please don't send me proprietary file formats, use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
