GSoC: Educational layout

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Friday 27 March 2009 14:53:07, Rob Scheepmaker escreveu:
> Hello Lauri,
>
> Some suggestions for improving your proposal:
>
> Currently your application is a bit vague. You're not telling much more
> about what you're trying to accomplish then what's on the GSoC ideas page.
> I'd suggest you include some more specifics, maybe some simple mockups
> since it is a rather GUI oriented project.
> Also, you say that you wanted to start in python and later make them C++
> applets. Why? Actually we want to have more scripted plasmoids, since
> scripted plasmoids have some significant advantages above binary ones, the
> most important one being that they can be installed through GHNS.
> On the network communication part: I've made a GSoC proposal myself about
> network transparency in plasma:
> http://socghop.appspot.com/student_proposal/show/google/gsoc2009/scheepmake
>r/t123809085405 If both my proposal and the educational layout get picked,
> we should definitely discuss the networking part. It's always nice to have
> somebody else using wip api so it becomes clear what the pain points are.
> Also be aware of the work Kevin Ottens is doing on a library that will make
> it easy to use services. It will get an api very similar to QDBus, and uses
> JOLIE.
>
> good luck!

as for design i have prety much alot of design/mocks/concepts on the subject 
based on talks i had with people actualy working in depoinments of educational 
desktops. you may be interested in inculing those...

> Regards,
> Rob
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