Mobile and GSOC

[Marco Martin]

On Sunday 27 March 2011, Davide Bettio wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This mail is about two topics: gsoc and mobile.
> Firstly, I am going to explain to you what I've been doing recently and
> what goals I have reached.
> I've started to work on the mobile stack since I've written a QML demo
> application called "mobile dolphin", since that day I've been working on
> several mobile apps including:

to me, as i explained before what is important is not much the applications 
per se, but how are written and how they use said mobile stack, i'm still not 
sure  how many of those pieces should be plasmoids, how many separate 
applications
99% of phone management, *maybe* except the contact list should be managed by 
plasmoids, c++ ones is ok for what uses stuff that isn't worth doing a qml 
export., any needed custom window managementcan be given at the proper level

for applications, i would like to see an unique way to do kapplications, that 
can access to kxmlguy kactions and uses only Package to access/load qml files.

it's a bit a rant, but what i don't want to see other quick and dirty mobile 
applications.

> * phonebook application (that stores contacts on akonadi)
> * phone dialer
> * phone management application (which works as PIN requester/active
> calls management, etc...)

why 3? (remember also the there you want as less running process as possible)

> * signal strength applet
> * mobile operator name applet

i think for the base case, it should be only a single applet that shows both, 
then if a distribution/vendor/someone wants to split it in two, that's fine

> Actually all the code is working with ofono/ofono-qt and phonesim but it
> should work on real hardware without any change.
> All the code is available on plasma-mobile (mobilephone and apps branches).
> I would like to continue to work on this project as a gsoc project.
> During the gsoc I plan to improve existing applications and to write
> other required applications (sms, calls register, etc...)
> Any comment or advice is welcome :)

this I think is really good, can you try to write an elaborate proposal, at 
least ~2 pages rather soon (you have until 8th april)

Cheers,
Marco Martin