Fwd: Kontact Touch GSOC Proposal

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Tuesday 05 March 2013 10:51:46 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday, March 4, 2013 20:58:16 Michael Bohlender wrote:
> > The way I imagined this:
> >   use the first six weeks to agree on the basic layout to display mails /
> > 
> > browse through them
> > 
> >   and
> >   use the second half for refinement, send mail dialog
> > 
> > + encryption options, search and stuff.
> > 
> > This way we would get two mockup phases one at the beginning and one after
> > midterm evaluation.
> 
> I think this is a great way to break it up in a way that works nicely with
> the mid-term.

+1

> > The first mockup phase needs to be longer though. because we need to have
> > a
> > rough idea where to put everything. including the parts of the second
> > phase.
> Yes, I imagine it could take up to 3 weeks .. but during that mockup process
> a lot of QML that will probably be usable in the final project will also be
> generated, so it won't be simply design-without-code-production ... which
> is one thing i love about QML :)
> 
> > > sure some will come to your mind even before you know very much about
> > > how
> > > Kontact/Akonadi/Plasma Active work.
> > 
> > I see a lot of design problems that need to be solved like
> 
> you've been doing your homework :) great to see and inspires confidence.

+1 These were the kind of answers I hoped to get :)