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<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Good morning/day/night, Plasma team!</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>My name is Alexander Argutin and I’m
a 3-d grade student of South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk, Russian
Federation. I’m writing you a letter because I found interesting an idea of the
GSoC, so I would like to take this chance. Why so late?)) Maybe because is too late and short summer in Russia)</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">According
to the Application template on a site, every GSoC student candidate should give
info about himself and his proposed project. Here it is:</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Name: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">Alexander Argutin</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Email Address: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">Alex dot Argutin at gmail dot com</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Freenode IRC Nick: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">Hornman</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Location
(City, Country and/or Time Zone): </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation, GMT +5:00 (Yekaterinburg)</span></strong><span style=""></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Proposal Name:</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> New Widget Explorer (from ideas list)<b><span style="color: red;"></span></b></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Motivation for Proposal / Goal:</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US"> What differs developers and
users? …except their abilities of coding)... Developers know what they want
from the computer and applications. And that’s why there is a problem for
developers – how to create soft that will explain user what does he want. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">Today developers have all equipment to do it: </span></strong><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">translucent widgets of a streamline, animated effects of soft light and
shadow, reflexions etc... There are no more boundaries of a desktop, no more
statics, no more </span></span><span class="refresult"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">obstacles </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">for understanding between a user and a computer.</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">This project is a step to</span></strong><span class="refresult"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> a lightweight widget-oriented UI concept. Main goal is to bring a
visitor to a widget-library, to let him make a choice easily and to make him
understand that all his dreams are true and most of his problems will be solved
easily by doing a few clicks...</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> <strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Implementation
Details:</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Developing Phases:</span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Phase 0 (5%):</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Common
architecture building, learning technologies, asking questions.</span></p>
<p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">This step brings knowledge about KDE and Plasma
environment, structures of an application and its basic functional blocks. The
most general questions concerning architecture, and concerning realization are
being asked to the mentor at this stage.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">On this step application will be divided on such blocks as:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Search Block</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">SB will solve problems of looking for a widget,
sorting widgets and rating explosion.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">View block</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">VB will solve problems of easy and comfortable UI with
a controller functions (MVC scheme)</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"><span style="">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Adoption block</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">AB will be the most capacious and also will be
divided. It will solve problems of widget support, placing, install and launch.
</span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Phase 1 (20%):</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">
Designing UI and usability analysis</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="" lang="EN-US">This stage assumes designing of the UI accor</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US">ding to the
standards of usability, graphic effects, and the whole application view. This
stage comes at the beginning of the development because the design is one of
the most </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-US">significant parts of this
project.</span><span style="" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Phase 2 (10%):</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> UML
architecture building, creating a kernel concept</span></p>
<p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">This phase consists from construction of diagrams of
precedents, classes and logic design of a product. Main objective of this stage
is working out of the flexible architecture, supporting all predictable widgets
and third party services.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Phase 4 (30%):</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Designing
interfaces, business-logic and project features</span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Phase 3 (45%):</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Developing
main project blocks prototypes</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Phase of main coding and <span class="apple-style-span">algorithmization.</span></span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Phase 4 (60%):</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Assembling
main blocks. Beta</span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Phase 5 (70%):</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">
Beta-testing and cleaning bug-reports</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">This stage means removing all bugs and holes found in a project.</span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Phase 7 (85%): </span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Ending development</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> <br>
</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"><span style="">F</span>inishing main parts, </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">realization of the third party widgets, trying different platforms<span style="">, </span>and little features
realisation.</span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Phase 8 (100%):</span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">
Release</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Tentative Timeline:</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US"> If the work will be started </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">at
the first days of April, Beta version will be expected in the first decade of
June. If succeeds, all the work will be done till the end of July – beginning of
August.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Do you have other obligations from late May to early
August (school, work, etc.)?</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">I will have </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">to pass the exams at the end of June. That’s all serious plans for this
time if the project will live. I don’t think my study will affect my work on
project or vice versa, because I study at university only perfectly well.</span><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">About Me (let us know who you are!): </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">F</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">irst
of all I’m a student. And I like this condition because it feels cool to be a
student! =) I like computers and all things linked to them: gadgets, devices, coding,
gaming, business-modeling, even the programming of microprocessors in assembler
language... Once I’ve chosen this path I’ve never felt sorry about it. Why? Of
course because it’s future! Unfortunately, there is no magic in our world like
in games, but there is a technology, so isn’t it a power? So, my heart is in
the IT sphere…)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">There are many things I can tell about myself. I like creative
activities and respect people who is engaged in them. That’s why I like music
and poetry.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">What about my own future? I don’t think it’s predictable, but I always try
to make it happy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Yours faithfully, Alexander.</span></b></p>