Braindump: The road ahead

[Somsubhra Bairi]

cc: calligra-devel

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Cyrille Berger <cberger at cberger.net> wrote:

> Hi Somsubhra,
>
> Sorry for the late answer. I have been really busy.
>
> In any case, that is really nice if you want to take care of braindump in
> the future. I have a couple of ideas, but I don't think I will have time to
> work on them. As far as I am concern, the UI of braindump went as far as it
> was possible within the flake framework, and unfortunately, I find it too
> hard to use and to make it good would mean too many changes in the calligra
> core libraries, and too much work for what I could spare.
>
> Otherwise your roadmap looks really good.
>
> On 2015-09-07 14:46, Somsubhra Bairi wrote:
>
>> 1. Get a stable version of Braindump running on KF5/Qt5. (Right now
>>> it crashes during file saving/closing, etc. Also many glitches here
>>> and there)
>>>
>>
There are still many rough edges here and there which need to be taken care
of.


>
>>> 2. Close all bugs which are still relevant from bugs.kde.org [2]
>>>
>>> 3. Improvements in the User Interface (I like the current UI, but we
>>> could still have a discussion on the possibilities of improvements)
>>>
>>
> A couple of monthes ago, I started working on trying to describe what I
> would want user interractions to be for braindump in the KDE wiki:
> https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Braindump


>
> I didn't go very far on that. But my main idea for Braindump is to behave
> like a virtual whiteboard, and rather than having the current interraction
> model where you have to drag&drop shapes on the canvas, I would want a set
> a tool (draw lines, text) and use that to do all the interraction. I am not
> sure sure if I am very clear :) But maybe I can try to find the time to
> describe this better.


I am sure we can add more details to the mockup. I am not too sure by what
you meant by set of tool for interaction.


>
>
>
> 4. Collaboration/sharing/syncing using Owncloud/other services?
>>>
>>> 5. Braindump on Android.
>>>
>>> I also propose that the last two points should be touched upon only
>>> until we have a stable version of Braindump running on Qt5/KF5.
>>>
>>
> Yes definitely, point 3. could be work on after having a stable version as
> well.
>
> --
> Cyrille Berger Skott
>



-- 
Cheers,
Somsubhra <http://somsubhra.com>
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