<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/3/15 Christophe Olinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:olingerc@binarylooks.com">olingerc@binarylooks.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey plasma people,<br>
<br>
My name is Christophe Olinger from Luxembourg (nick binarylooks) and I<br>
am following KDE and especially plasma for a few years now. I learned<br>
C++ a looong time ago (10 years?) and basically I fear it’s all gone.<br>
Nevertheless, I am trying to get into it again especially using Qt.<br>
If somebody is interested in these kind of things: I am 29.9 years old<br>
and have a PhD in molecular biology and worked in the bioinformatics<br>
field. Soon to be father and I hope my immense motivation in coding<br>
will continue.<br>
<br>
My main interest lies in getting plasma bling (am I allowed to say<br>
bling?). Onto netbooks and later tablets. I really like the current<br>
plasma-netbook workspace and right now I am thinking about creating a<br>
sort of really simple picture viewer. Since I can basically be<br>
considered a C++ newbie I am a bit afraid of jumping into an existing<br>
project yet. I need to learn. I am currently dissecting the frame<br>
plasmoid to learn about the painter and QPixmaps. (I know about plasma<br>
media center and will have a look at it. If I learn enough with my pet<br>
project, I will surely start contributing to it)<br>
<br>
What the viewer should do:<br>
v0.1: Display an image, allow swiping to switch image. Allow a single<br>
image mode and a browse mode. The browse mode will be a grid of images<br>
and you can pan through the grid. Tapping an image will switch to<br>
single picture mode. All this should be fullscreen and feel natural<br>
<br>
<br>
v0.2 use nepomuk and other stuff to filter your collection, tag images<br>
and rotate them. No additional manipulation<br>
<br>
I would appreciate some intial help to get started so here my questions<br>
*Should I learn Qt quick for this and do all this in declarative?<br>
*Should I use plasmalibs as basis for this or start it as a new qt<br>
(kdelibs) app?<br>
*Should this be a C++ plasmoid that I can later tie to a new<br>
containment to make it fullscreen?<br>
*Should I code this as a new containment type? like SAL or newspaper<br>
and this would be picture viewer?<br>
*Could I do this with a javascript plasmoid? I guess not easily<br>
*Should a start with gwenview as basis? and add a new viewmode to gwenview?<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks for bearing with me.<br>
<br>
Christophe<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>Hi Cristophe,<br><br>I totally agree with Marco so just follow his hints.<br>I just wanted to let you know that we both are on IRC [1] so you can join us and start working on the mediacenter if you mind. There are also some ideas for this-year GSoC [2] if you want to have a look at them and eventually start writing your own proposal. You can ping me (alediaferia) or Marco (notmart) on #plasma or #plasma-mediacenter.<br>
<br>Cheers!<br><br>[1] <a href="http://chat.freenode.net">chat.freenode.net</a><br>[2] <a href="http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas">http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alessandro Diaferia<br>
KDE Developer<br>KDE e.V. member<br><br>