Participation in GSoC 2013

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 23:29:51 amanjot singh wrote:
> It isn't fully developed yet, so I wanted to submit a proposal for the same
> to make it a fully functional and a usable widget.

What are the use cases you have in mind for this widget? 

Also, have you worked on this, or other KDE software, since SoK?

> The main goal would be improvement of the user interface, the widget uses a
> file dialog, instead a list of available templates would be developed
> showing their title, author, date of creation and other information.

The existing widget is very pretty, and a nice list that appears when an item 
is selected would be an improvement, yes. Have you given thoughts as to how 
this might look?

Also, your current widget uses QGraphicsView widgets, which makes sense for 
when it was written. Have you done any work with QML yet, as that is what have 
been moving to.

> Another thing that would be added is a preview button that shows the
> preview or thumbnail of the files in the list.

this can probably be done by default witha button.

> A standardization of the folder where LibreOffice stores templates would
> have to made for the widget to work properly on every system.

afaik it exists: $PREFIX/share/templates

> After this is developed, the widget will be extended to work with multiple
> application programs,  allowing the user to create and open files and
> templates of the types not supported or not present in LibreOffice.
> Would like to ponder on any more suggestions on the development of the
> widget and comments on my direction of development. :)

We have need for something similar in Plasma Active .. a "Create New..." app 
that would offer such templates. It would need to support all the applications 
that can create documents on the system, even if they don't have templates, 
but it's easy enough to extend the extant design with.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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