[Panel-devel] corona

[M. Costa]

El Wednesday 11 July 2007 19:01:09 Johannes Neugschwentner escribió:
> Hi Guys!
>
> I wrote some time ago that i was doing a thesis about the
> user-centered-desktop and have found Plasma to be the ideal place to
> contribute practical work that would also be for my thesis.
>
> status:
> got 2 weeks to finishing
> have looked at the code and understood *most*
> as i need some functions that really need to be available on user
> interaction with the base-canvas i will probably touch corona.cpp here.
> i've talked with some guys in the channel - they said corona is the place
> for this and that i should write to the list.
> so, i'm not your pro - programmer and i really don't want to mess up
> anything. so, i'm gonna adapt corona to my needs and if you're interested
> in it i will send it to someone ...
>
> anyway, this is what it's gonna be about:
> * a paint-selection
> * grouping my plasmoids objects --- which is icon representations of files
> seeked out via a strigi-plasmoid (meta-info) ... (hope this one worx,
> really essential to me)
> * autosaving these plasmoid icons and it's groupings on every change
> * mouse behaviour control .... so as to change the mouse in to a zoom/pan
> tool ...
>
> that's it i guess
> the rest will be done in an item, a group, a metaseek, an interface class
> .. blabla .. specific plasmoid staff.
>
> so, i'll just give it a shot, if you have any comments or whatever, please
> feel free


Reading the conversation I think you have in mind something that looks like 
very much the stuff  we (Daniel Lorych and me) are doing.

The idea, in few words, is file cluster detection, and autoposition for new 
icons. 

The second phase will be contracting the bigger/least used clusters into a 
single icon-group labeled, for example, "Show 12 images". Clicking on this 
icon-group expands the files with some fancy and cool animation reagrouping 
when one is selected.

We have the central idea about how to attack the problem and some basic 
clustering code.

I plan to make some questions tomorrow before starting to touch plasma code.