[Owncloud] Impressionist App for ownCloud

Jan-Christoph Borchardt hey at jancborchardt.net
Fri Oct 5 17:48:09 UTC 2012


Cool, I’m excited! Props for your work. :)



On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Raghu Nayyar <raghu.nayyar.007 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt
> <hey at jancborchardt.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hey Raghu,
>>
>> I’ve been checking out Impress.js for quite some time and am also
>> excited about good editors for it. Impressionist was the first one but
>> now development seems to be going slow – most updates are older than a
>> few months.
>
>
> Exactly.
>
>>
>> There is another editor for Impress.js called Strut (disclaimer: I did
>> the logo and sometimes help with the interaction design) you can test
>> drive it at http://tantaman.github.com/Strut/ and the code is at
>> https://github.com/tantaman/Strut
>> Development is very active, Matt the author is cc'd.
>> Strut is also working in Firefox, which I think is an important
>> requirement.
>
>
> I know about Strut, which probably is the next app I will like to work on.
>>
>>
>> Just as a notice – I’m not saying you should change your app, and I
>> would be excited for Impressionist to pick up steam again. But
>> currently Strut seems the superior choice.
>
>
> It's fine. I am shifting the app to load as a template, will be done with a
> quite a many things in my next push to apps. I don't mind starting with
> Strut right after. ;) What say?
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Raghu Nayyar <me at iraghu.com> wrote:
>> > Hey All,
>> >
>> > After having a conversation chat with Frank, I am pushing the basic
>> > application Impressionist for creating impress.js web presentations in
>> > the
>> > apps repository. The current version of the  application in itself has a
>> > lot
>> > of bugs especially on the UI part, I tried solving many of them, but I
>> > guess
>> > there are still many. I am waiting for the alpha3 version of the app to
>> > be
>> > launched as I am in touch with it's maker. Since there are many of them,
>> > it
>> > will be superb if I can get help from you guys. :)
>> >
>> > I am confused about how will we save the files here? Are we merging the
>> > impress and impressionist as the same medium to run impress files? In
>> > layman
>> > language, will we save the files as .impress as it is there in the
>> > current
>> > impress app, I guess that will make it very complicated though.
>> >
>> > The freetransform.js is not loading properly on my mac but is just fine
>> > on
>> > windows I guess is another problem I am facing. (error is coming from
>> > appui.js most probably).
>> >
>> > Lastly, the application is only compatible to webkit browsers. Are we
>> > supposed to make it run on firefox too? Or for that we should wait for
>> > the
>> > next release.
>> > For knowing more about the application you can go through this link
>> > http://hsivaram.com/tech/ and the github profile
>> > https://github.com/hsivaramx/Impressionist
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Raghu
>> >
>> >
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>
>
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Raghu Nayyar
> Undergraduate,
> B.E. Mechanical Engineering
> BITS-Pilani, KK Birla Goa Campus
> E-mail: me at iraghu.com
>



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