[Kde-games-devel] KGGZ GSoC Proposal

[Josef Spillner]

Hello,

Am Montag 24 März 2008 15:34:30 schrieb Ben Boeckel:
> Here is a draft of my proposal for the GGZ client in KDE GSoC project. I
> have discussed it with Josef a bit on IRC. Any suggestions on improving it
> would be great. Thanks.

The proposal looks very good from an administrative point of view.
According to the SoC programme timeline, your Phase IV will be the actual SoC 
coding time, so it's definitely a good idea to start earlier, and there will 
hopefully also be a Phase V afterwards :-)

Here are some notes that you may want to think about for the content of the 
task. They represent my personal opinion of what might help strengthen the 
proposal.
* Parts of the new core client should for the most part be emeddable into game 
clients. How do you plan to look into that?
* Some of the widgets you'll need might be present in KDE already. Think about 
a chat widget, a connection dialogue... maybe coordinating this with the 
Kopete guys might be a good idea (also for launching games from Kopete).
* The core client should implement the whole feature set offered by the GGZ 
main protocol. The current KGGZ does that, but is a total mess regarding 
usability. Therefore creating a more usable client is not exactly hard, but 
still it'd be good to see if you plan to request a mid-term review from the 
Openusability people, for example.

Josef

P.S. I'm going to be offline from April 15 to May 5.