Re: What can you tell new about Content Selection?
On 8 Apr 2013 16:01, Federico Mena Quintero feder...@gnome.org wrote: As far as I know, this is not being worked on yet. Some months ago I started a very preliminary (read: nearly useless) API brainstorming page here: https://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/ContentSelection (... which I noticed wasn't linked from the design page - fixed now.) It would be good to sit down and chat about this. Would you like to do this as a GSoC project? I'd very gladly mentor you! Federico You read my mind, Federico - yes, I would LOVE to work on this as a GSoC project! Sounds like such a project has a lot of room to play in - some specification-writing, some library-writing, some example implementations with various apps, and maybe a bit of evangelising… - so it would be important to come up with a good scope for it. I think it's interesting that your API brainstorm page takes a totally different tack from what I had been picturing, and from what I often see elsewhere. (That involved lots of MIME types and the possibility of apps providing types of content we haven't thought about, like GPX files or calendar events - which, come think of it, could work pretty badly in practice). So, I like it :) I would definitely like to chat about this with you. I'm in final exam panic mode this week so I won't be much fun, but maybe early next week I'll find you on IRC? Thanks for all the help! Dylan ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: What can you tell new about Content Selection?
Hey Dylan! Dylan McCall dylanmcc...@gmail.com wrote: I remember reading about a goal for GNOME called Content Selection. One of those new-fangled content applications like Files, Photos or Documents would be available as a Content Selector (much like a file chooser dialog) for any other application. Here's Allan Day on the subject, and a wiki page: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/gnome-design-update-part-two/ https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ContentSelection Me and Jon were investigating this for a while, but it is dependent on us having each of the content applications (Documents, Music, Videos, Photos, Transfers) in good shape - so it is more of a long term idea at this stage. Now, first of all, I guess I'm wondering if this is on a roadmap somewhere, or if it's just an idea at this point. Either way, this is something I have been very interested in for some time, and I've been meaning to play with GNOME a lot more, so I would really love to do something to help make it happen :) It might be too early to implement it for real. That said, there's plenty of scope for exploration and prototyping. It would be great to see how the idea might perform in practice. Is somebody working on Content Selection at this point, and do you think it would make sense for a student to contribute to that as a GSoC project? (Willing mentors, etc?). Who should I talk to? Any help is greatly appreciated. Some of the content applications could make good internship projects. I know that we already have some interest around Music and Transfers, for example. Otherwise, I'd recommend speaking to Jon McCann and Cosimo Cecchi. They both have a good idea of where we are heading with regards to how content is handled, and I suspect that there will be a few different things that will need to fall into place before we can tackle content selection itself. One of them may well be interesting to you or to interns. Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: What can you tell new about Content Selection?
On Sun, 2013-04-07 at 10:19 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote: Is somebody working on Content Selection at this point, and do you think it would make sense for a student to contribute to that as a GSoC project? (Willing mentors, etc?). Who should I talk to? Any help is greatly appreciated. As far as I know, this is not being worked on yet. Some months ago I started a very preliminary (read: nearly useless) API brainstorming page here: https://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/ContentSelection (... which I noticed wasn't linked from the design page - fixed now.) It would be good to sit down and chat about this. Would you like to do this as a GSoC project? I'd very gladly mentor you! Federico ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
