[Owncloud] Re: Refactoring owncloud

[kunal]

Hi all,

I do not know to what extent this is going to help
or even if this is going to be relevant in this thread.
There is an open-sourced javascript framework to develop
desktop grade UIs for web-apps, called http://cappuccino.org/
we may look into the same.

On 03/03/2011 04:33 PM, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> Hi Jakob,
>
> this sounds interesting. I´m looking forward to see your results.
>
> Perhaps it´s good to keep one aspect in mind.
> I think ownCloud might move more into the direction of a platform for web apps in the future.
> So plugins might become more like Apps which run on top of ownCloud.
>
> One day an ownCloud user might install an RSS reader App, a TODO manager or a game on ownCloud as an third party App. We can provide a interface to search for new Plugins/Apps, install or update via OCS or uninstall them.
>
> It´s important that we provide a clean API for Plugins/Apps with features like "I´m a plugin and I need those database tables. Please create them for me during install and remove them during uninstall". "Create those additional buttons in the navigation" or "I need an additional data directory for my stuff".
>
> It would be also cool if we could provide basic GUI elements for the Plugins/Apps. Like a listview, a button and so on.
>
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers
> Frank
>
>
>
>
> On 03.03.2011, at 00:25, Jakob Sack wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> those of you following #owncloud on freenode already know this: I am
>> refactoring owncloud.
>>
>> But what does this mean? Well, some parts of owncloud are somewhat messy. To
>> make contributing to owncloud easier I thought about possible chages and put
>> them down on the wiki [1]. After some feedback from Robin and François I
>> started to implement those changes.
>>
>> To summarize the changes: I try to loosely follow the MVC paradigm, put
>> libraries from other parties in another folder ("3dparty") and separate the
>> functions (applications). Furthermore I introduced some very basic template
>> system using php files and the ob_* functions and migrate the javascript code
>> to jquery and jquery-ui.
>>
>> At the moment the code is barely working. If you want to have a look at it
>> just enter the branch "refactoring" or visit [2]. There you can see the
>> current state of my work. Be warned: this code might eat your children.
>>
>> Please do not expect final results before the Stuttgart meeting. Using this as
>> a base for new features isn't a good idea, either. The code might change
>> faster than you can do a rebuild of kde. Lastly, I am not going to add
>> features like versioning and a gallery and whatsoever. The primary goal is to
>> have a working refactored owncloud making developers feeling welcomed.
>>
>> If you have feedback please edit the according wiki page or answer this mail.
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Jakob
>>
>> [1] http://owncloud.org/index.php/Refactoring
>> [2]
>> https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/www/owncloud/repository/show?rev=refactoring
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