[kde-edu]: GSoC Proposal: KidDraw

[Tomaz Canabrava]

Since My application wasn`t accepted too, I`m giving myself away for anyone
that have a little time to answer some questions and want a studant to help
just for good will, thy application


On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf <
annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It looks you did not get a GSoC but we think such an application is needed
> in
> KDE-Edu.
> Do you have plans to still work on it and do you need help doing so? We
> would
> be happy hosting the code in playground/edu and start KDEify it!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Anne-Marie
>
> Le Friday 21 March 2008 11:22:41 pm Cheetah, vous avez écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > Since I'm new here, I'll first introduce myself: I'm Wouter Haffmans, a
> 23
> > year old student Computer Science at the University of Technology
> Eindhoven
> > (in the Netherlands).  I want to submit a proposal for GSoC next week,
> with
> > a new suggestion for KDE Edu, which will hopefully get me involved in the
> > KDE community. So far I've only been following development, and I think
> > it's time for me to start actively participating. GSoC seems to be the
> > perfect opportunity. So, here's the idea:
> >
> > In the past I've made a small and simple drawing application as a high
> > school assignment. The target group were young children who are not able
> to
> > use a computer mouse all too well yet. That assignment was made in
> Delphi.
> > As I myself have a son now, I decided to remake that application to Qt 4.
> > Part of it is done, but it still needs lots of work and improvement.
> >
> > I want to submit KidDraw (which is its very original name) as GSoC
> project
> > to help KDE Edu to something new and unique. I think it fits KDE Edu best
> > since it helps kids learn how to use the mouse and explore their
> creativity
> > in a fun way, though I suppose it could also fit in KDE Graphics... I'm
> not
> > entirely sure about that.
> >
> > This has been done for KidDraw so far (see
> > http://svn.simply-life.net/KidDraw/trunk/ for the current code):
> > The UI is simple, kid-friendly. It already shows the canvas, which is
> > QGraphics based. The "live" rendering is done on an extra cached QImage
> > though (like the Qt scribbly example), as that seemed to perform much
> > better in my tests. Drawing is done by clicking any mouse button (not
> just
> > the left one). On the left and right the color palette is shown: simply
> > hovering the mouse over a color will select it. The same goes for the
> line
> > widths, which can be picked at the bottom. The buttons are big and thus
> > easy to hit.
> >
> > The canvas also already supports the loading of a background image, which
> > can be used for coloring sheets as well as connect-the-dots like stuff.
> >
> > Tasks that would be for GSoC:
> > - KDEify KidDraw, it's just a Qt app now. It already uses CMake, but
> other
> > than that it's all just Qt 4.
> >
> > - When changing a palette, the lines that were already drawn will need to
> > change colors as well.
> >
> > - Allow saving and reloading of pictures. All line items will need to
> > remain intact (because of the palette changes).
> >
> > - Create "Image Pickers" at the top of the canvas, which show thumbnails
> of
> > saved images. Clicking one loads the image into the canvas, and also
> saves
> > the canvas image to that slot. This way a child doesn't need to know
> about
> > files or filenames.
> >
> > - Make a big "Clear" button to clear the canvas.
> >
> > - Custom color palettes, possibly with HotNewStuff integration.
> >
> > - Export images, saving them to a PNG/JPG/SVG file on disk. This is
> > something parents probably will need to help with, so its UI can be more
> > "complicated" (i.e. a menu).
> >
> > - Printing support to print the canvas image.
> >
> > - UI to load background images.
> >
> > - UI for editing (and creating new) color palettes.
> >
> > - Settings panel, especially with settings on when clicking/dragging is
> > necessary (for younger kids clicking to toggle the pen up/down may be
> > better than having to drag with the mouse pressed, etc).
> >
> > - Option to set a picture as desktop background. I'm not exactly sure how
> > feasable it is to make this cross platform, considering obvious
> differences
> > between Plasma, Windows and OS X.
> >
> > - A "Color Sheet" mode, which makes a click on the canvas fill the area
> > with the selected color rather than drawing lines.
> >
> > - If there's more time: a "Connect the dots" mode, which requires the
> user
> > to draw lines from dot to dot (again using polygons as the points of the
> > dots). Once all dots have been connected, KidDraw could switch to Color
> > Sheet mode to allow filling of the drawn lines. To add a "surprise"
> effect,
> > the dots that do not need to be connected yet (e.g. dots 3 and higher at
> > the start) could remain hidden until they need to be visible.
> >
> > Altogether I think there is more than enough to be done during the three
> > months of GSoC, but more suggestions, ideas, criticism, advice etc. is
> more
> > than welcome before I submit my GSoC application.
> >
> > Wouter
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