[Kde-pim] draft proposal

Thu Apr 4 10:02:59 UTC 2013

Not necessarily the wrong list, it was listed as a KDE PIM idea last year 
(with myself as the mentor) so kde-pim was appropriate as well.

Since this idea has repeatedly shown to not get much interest from people 
involved in workspace development I'd say we keep in on the PIM list instead.

Cheers,
Kevin

On Thursday, 2013-04-04, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
> FYI, this was sent to the wrong mailing list...
> 
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Heena Mahour <heena393 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey Kevin,
> > Please give suggestion and could you please elaborate which
> > plasmoids(apart from notes sharing using akonadi) are to be created for
> > this project? ==========
> > *GSoC'13 Project Proposal*
> > 
> > 
> > *Name:   *         Heena Mahour
> > *Email:*            heena393 at gmail.com
> > *IRC nick*:        stack3457
> > *Location: *       New Delhi, India.
> > 
> > 
> > *Prposal Title:* * Plasma Workspace Integration for Akonadi*
> > 
> > *Motivation fr proposal:*
> > 
> > Plasma Workspace is very well designed to accommodate various panels,
> > widgets, etc. on the desktop and has seen many changes since KDE 4.1 in
> > the plasma design and architecture. Its developer friendly code-base
> > allows various programmers to easily create custom plasmoids which can
> > be distributed as a small bundle and be easily integrated into the
> > plasma workspace.
> > 
> > With introduction of Qt Quick/QML in Qt 4.7, the gap between the
> > developers and UI designers got narrowed down with its rich set of QML
> > elements and intuitive declarative QML language. QML allows designers to
> > create fluid like animated UIs very quickly. And most importantly, the
> > animations happen without the slightest glitch. The Javascript/C++
> > bundle efficiently handles all the back-end implementation, leaving the
> > designers to concentrate on the animations and UI simplicity.
> > 
> > The aim of this project is to have multiple working Plasma Workspace
> > integration bits and pieces This idea is about working and completing
> > several smaller items for workspace integration
> > A great advantage by it  it is reduce the code maintenance effort for the
> > KDE community. The plasmoids written in QML (for eg to store data in
> > Akonadi) will have considerably less code as QML allows the creation of
> > fluid UIs in a powerful declarative way.
> > 
> > I’ve been using Linux for quite a long time, but I just became a KDE user
> > in the beginning of the last year when I participated in season of kde
> > 2012.My enthusiasm towards KDE initially led me to learning Qt (which I
> > grasped very quickly) and made a lot of small applications with it (like
> > a kde plasmoid [1])for some experience. I have already been a fan of the
> > KDE Plasma amongst other KDE features, and this project is the bull's
> > eye towards my interest. I see a perfect opportunity to develop some
> > real life desktop user interface with the latest technology of QtQuick
> > through this project.
> > 
> > *Implementation plan:*
> > 
> > Initially the steps were chosen for this project:
> > 1)KDE currently has multiple notes plasmoids to store user notes. The
> > best looking plasmoid is currently the one that plasma ships, but it
> > does not use akonadi to store notes. It would be better to have one
> > plasmoid which looks awesome and stores data in Akonadi and retiring
> > other plasmoids. 2)?? (Please suggest)
> > 
> >  The above mentioned plasmoid will be transformed to either
> >  QML/Javascript
> > 
> > or QML /C++ in this project.
> > 
> > *Tentative Timeline:*
> > 
> > May 1 onwards : Read plasma code and get familiar with the current
> > plasma/plasmoids code and the plasma library.
> > May 13 - May 26 : Practice painting the widets in qml . Probably write
> > one or two practice plasmoids to get a first hand feel of how they're
> > made. May 26 - June 9: Start with the actual re-factoring of the
> > plasmoids into QML/C++ or QML/Javascript (whichever is most suitable). I
> > plan to invest one-two weeks with the first two-three plasmoids .
> > June 10 -June 30 :Remaining widgets  may be covered within this week
> > each. July 1- July 7: Testing each plasmoid  and when it undergoes the
> > re-factoring.
> > July 8 -July 14 :Do the final adjustment ,fix bugs .
> > July 15 onwards : work on documentation
> > 
> > 
> > *About Me:*
> > 
> > I'm a second year engineering student, pursuing B.Tech. in Computer
> > engineering(COE) from Delhi Technological University(Formerly Delhi
> > College of Engineering),New Delhi,India.
> > 
> > I’ve been using Linux for quite a long time, but I just became a KDE user
> > in the beginning of the last year when I participated in season of kde
> > 2012[3].In*Season of KDE 2012*, I worked on Kde-edu game 'pairs' where I
> > have done the following  :-
> > 
> >> Developed layout for the editor of the game pairs.
> >> Developed themes for the game –pairs
> >> Learned the basics of the project building & concept of make files .
> >> 
> >  Mentor:*Marco Calignano.*
> >  Status : Complete and my themes are also available as add-on at
> >  kde-look.org <http://kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=647>.
> > 
> > KDE is the project I've been most familiar to and interested in, as I see
> > most of cutting edge technologies wrapped up in KDE, and of course, I
> > love the awesome community commitment and dedication towards the same.
> > 
> > I've been following few mailing lists and the development in trunk since
> > half an year. I have contributed to kde by providing pastebin
> > scripts,various themes for kde-game -pairs and a plasmoid shuffle [4][1]
> > to get a hold of KDE code-base and the development process of KDE.
> > 
> > Besides,I have also tried to implement a tic tace toe game using qml [5]
> > and a text editor [6].Apart from these,I love blogging and I have blogged
> > about my projects at blogspot [7]
> > 
> > Besides coding, I love painting,music and exploring new open source
> > technologies.
> > 
> > 
> > *Links:*
> > 
> > [1] http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/shuffle?content=156491
> > [2] http://community.kde.org/Plasma/QMLPorting#Porting_Plasmoids_to_QML
> > [3] http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/StatusReports#Heena
> > [4]http://kde-look.org/usermanager/search.php?username=heena&action=profi
> > le [5]
> > http://sourceforge.net/p/virtualk/code/ci/1e774cae13ee04d1b93bd31066fd3ba
> > 0ed9475bf/tree/tic-tac-toe/ [6]
> > http://sourceforge.net/p/virtualk/code/ci/1e774cae13ee04d1b93bd31066fd3ba
> > 0ed9475bf/tree/texteditor_1/
> > <http://sourceforge.net/p/virtualk/code/ci/1e774cae13ee04d1b93bd31066fd3
> > ba0ed9475bf/tree/texteditor_1/> [7] http://www.heenamahour.blogspot.in/
> > 
> > --
> > -Heena
> > Season of kde'12 participant
> > Delhi College of Engineering(COE),India
> > http://about.me/heena.mahour
> > http://heenamahour.blogspot.in
> > _______________________________________________
> > KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim at kde.org
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim
> > KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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