[Parley-devel] Features in next version of Parley

[Aleix Pol]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:

>  Hi guys,
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> As you can see this mail is sent to both parley-devel and kde-edu. In the
> future I will keep Parley specific discussions in parley-devel, but I
> thought that perhaps some people who are interested in Parley are not aware
> of that list. So just this time I will post to both. If you are interested,
> do become a member of the parley-devel list[1].
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> Now, the actual contents. This mail is a call for features to be put on
> the TODO list for the next version of Parley.
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> The last development period which lead up to the just now published Parley
> 1.1 in KDE 4.14 focussed greatly on an improved training experience. We
> added the following bigger features among all the small ones:
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> - a dashboard to keep track of the status of all collections
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> - double directional training
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> - sessions
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> This does not mean that all training features in Parley are "done". But it
> is at least good enough even for serious language learners and I am using
> it myself daily for my studies.
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> The focus of the next version will be content generation. This means that
> we will make an overhaul of the editor and add a lot of small features that
> will make the process of creating new collections easier. It will also mean
> integration of Amarvir Singh's GSoC project "semi-automatic generation of
> collections in parley" so that we can speed up the generation of
> collections a lot.
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> In addition to the above we are also doing two things in parallel:
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> - Alexander Xavier has ported Parley to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5. This
> means that it will be ready for the next generation of KDE platforms. It
> also means easier porting to other platforms like Windows, MacOSX and
> Android. This will be the future platform for Parley and it will be ready
> for the upcoming version.
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> - The KDE Edu group is currently specifying a new file format for
> collections. This will be a common format for all KDE Edu language
> applications, including Artikulate, and the applications for younger users
> such as KHangman. We also hope that we will get GCompris with us but this
> is not yet decided.
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> This new file format will allow pictures, sound and other forms of media
> to be collected into one file that is easier to distribute than a kvtml
> file with lots of picture files. It will also allow better statistics and
> more varied training methods.
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> The new file format is unlikely to be ready for the next version but it is
> possible that we can implement it in Parley for the version after that.
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> But which specific features do you want? I want to take this opportunity
> to let developers and users come up with ideas that we can collect and
> choose between. Please answer as followups to this mail. I will collect
> them all and put them into the TODO file and then make some sort of
> priority list.
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> I will also put this text on the KDE forums which are perhaps read by
> people who are not members of any mailing lists.
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> -Inge
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> [1] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/parley-devel
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Hi Inge and Parley crew,
First of all, good work, we all hoped that somebody would have your
enthusiasm.

I just wanted to say that I think it's ok if you want to discuss Parley
things in the kde-edu mailing list, there's not that much traffic anyway.
But do as it feels better.

Cheers!
Aleix
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