[Owncloud] Re: Refactoring owncloud

[Jakob Sack]

Hi Kunal,

Cappuccino looks very interesting, however, I think that it is unsuitable for 
owncloud. Although we want nice applications with some AJAX foo a framework 
for developing desktop like applications would be an overkill.
As a side node I really do not want to learn another language. Getting used to 
javascript/jQuery while learning Ruby/Rails for work is hard enough ;-)
Greetings,

Jakob


Am Donnerstag, 3. März 2011, 12:41:00 schrieb kunal:
> Hi all,
> 
> I do not know to what extent this is going to help
> or even if this is going to be relevant in this thread.
> There is an open-sourced javascript framework to develop
> desktop grade UIs for web-apps, called http://cappuccino.org/
> we may look into the same.
> 
> On 03/03/2011 04:33 PM, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> > Hi Jakob,
> > 
> > this sounds interesting. I´m looking forward to see your results.
> > 
> > Perhaps it´s good to keep one aspect in mind.
> > I think ownCloud might move more into the direction of a platform for web
> > apps in the future. So plugins might become more like Apps which run on
> > top of ownCloud.
> > 
> > One day an ownCloud user might install an RSS reader App, a TODO manager
> > or a game on ownCloud as an third party App. We can provide a interface
> > to search for new Plugins/Apps, install or update via OCS or uninstall
> > them.
> > 
> > It´s important that we provide a clean API for Plugins/Apps with features
> > like "I´m a plugin and I need those database tables. Please create them
> > for me during install and remove them during uninstall". "Create those
> > additional buttons in the navigation" or "I need an additional data
> > directory for my stuff".
> > 
> > It would be also cool if we could provide basic GUI elements for the
> > Plugins/Apps. Like a listview, a button and so on.
> > 
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Frank
> > 
> > On 03.03.2011, at 00:25, Jakob Sack wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> those of you following #owncloud on freenode already know this: I am
> >> refactoring owncloud.
> >> 
> >> But what does this mean? Well, some parts of owncloud are somewhat
> >> messy. To make contributing to owncloud easier I thought about possible
> >> chages and put them down on the wiki [1]. After some feedback from
> >> Robin and François I started to implement those changes.
> >> 
> >> To summarize the changes: I try to loosely follow the MVC paradigm, put
> >> libraries from other parties in another folder ("3dparty") and separate
> >> the functions (applications). Furthermore I introduced some very basic
> >> template system using php files and the ob_* functions and migrate the
> >> javascript code to jquery and jquery-ui.
> >> 
> >> At the moment the code is barely working. If you want to have a look at
> >> it just enter the branch "refactoring" or visit [2]. There you can see
> >> the current state of my work. Be warned: this code might eat your
> >> children.
> >> 
> >> Please do not expect final results before the Stuttgart meeting. Using
> >> this as a base for new features isn't a good idea, either. The code
> >> might change faster than you can do a rebuild of kde. Lastly, I am not
> >> going to add features like versioning and a gallery and whatsoever. The
> >> primary goal is to have a working refactored owncloud making developers
> >> feeling welcomed.
> >> 
> >> If you have feedback please edit the according wiki page or answer this
> >> mail.
> >> 
> >> Greetings,
> >> 
> >> Jakob
> >> 
> >> [1] http://owncloud.org/index.php/Refactoring
> >> [2]
> >> https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/www/owncloud/repository/sho
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> > 
> > --
> > Frank Karlitschek
> > karlitschek at kde.org
> > 
> > 
> > 
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