GSoC proposal: First draft

[todd rme]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, March 10, 2011, Viranch Mehta wrote:
>> Attached is the first draft of my GSoC proposal for the project: QMLify the
>> KDE Plasma Widgets. Please review it and send me comments/suggestions.
>
> one thing i'd suggest is priortizing and annotating the list of target
> plasmoids.
>
> some are more difficult than others. i'd suggest starting with the simpler
> ones first so that if you get stuck on something more complex we'll at least
> get the easier plasmoids done as part of the GSoC project. this will also give
> you the opportunity to slowly ramp up your QML skills by starting with easier
> projects and working your way up the slope to more complex ones.
>
> the other important issue is that some are already started, and so may need to
> just be finished out. Marco has made a lot of progress on a system tray
> replacement, for instance.
>
> Marco: is there a list somewhere of the QML porting status of plasmoids? if
> not, let's start on on community.kde.org.
>
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Might it be good to start with the ones that are already in-progress,
that way you can directly compare the the existing plasmoid code and
the QML code and thus, hopefully, get a feel for how to do the
porting?

-Todd