GSOC Kontact Touch

[Björn Balazs]

Hi all,

as I have defined most of the UI concepts in Kontact Touch I 
would be willing to support any project as good as I can.

There are lots of ideas that have not been realized during the 
initial project. I would love to see some more to come real!

So my offer to Thomas - I would support your co-mentorship :)

Cheers,
Björn

Am Dienstag, 26. Februar 2013, 19:08:48 schrieb Thomas 
Pfeiffer:
> On Tuesday 26 February 2013 17:12:43 Michael Bohlender 
wrote:
> > I'd like to participate in GSOC 2013.  This year’s theme 
is "KDE++ aka
> > polish everything" so Kontact Touch seems to be a good 
candidate in my
> > eyes.
> 
> Absolutely! Kontact Touch is one of our strong points 
functionality-wise,
> but the UI clearly needs a major face lift for it to become 
a prime Plasma
> Active citizen. So yes, it is a great candidate for 
polishing!
> 
> > Now I am looking for a mentor and the right scope for my 
project. I want
> > to
> > do mostly UI work. Would porting things over to plasma-qml 
components  be
> > a
> > good project?
> 
> Since this is work which will have a major impact on Plasma 
Active's overall
> user experience, I'd like to be a co-mentor for the 
UX/usability
> perspective of things. I guess the primary mentor for a GSoC 
project needs
> to know more about the code, though, so we'll still need a 
developer as
> mentor.
> > I am not sure how much work that will be and if I can 
manage to port every
> > application of the suite in the given time. So maybe just 
focus on one or
> > two?
> 
> As Aaron already wrote: Yes, you'll definitely have to focus 
on some part of
> Kontact Touch, you can't do it all in one project.
> 
> > The UI seems to be designed with a smaller form factor in 
mind. Is it
> > supposed to stay this way or am I free to experiment and 
make it more
> > suitable for tablet use?
> 
> It is not supposed to stay this way and you are free to 
experiment, but
> since you'll likely define some new standards with this, I'd 
like to
> co-mentor you to keep an eye on things.
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