Gunnar's post on his "QML Presentation System" in 2011 was absolutely inspiring, IMHO: http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2011/05/30/a-qml-presentation-system/
At the time, (and still now), I viewed this as a *brilliant* application of QML that would ultimately be a better approach for creating presentations than any of the existing commercial "presentation-software" out there. Very clever idea, with great potential. Correct me on any of these points: =WHERE HOSTED *- It's on both Gitorious and GitHub ... I guess both of these are being maintained? Gitorious: (last commit May-2013): http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-labs/qml-presentation-system/source/171c7228d39e5fcb7d034f3f6bbb82ad61a33eb8: GitHub: (last commit May-2013): https://github.com/qtproject/qt-labs-qml-presentation-system =OTHER SIMILAR PROJECTS It looks like it inspired "Quickshow", which I think might now be abandoned? http://www.ohloh.net/p/quickshow Not sure if it also inspired other efforts? =EXAMPLES AND DOCS IMHO, the Git repository is adequate: The README and examples are good. (Minor "nit" is that the examples run fine on Win7/Qt5.1, the "printslides" project builds/works fine, but I failed so far to get the "Src.pro" project working -- not sure how I'm supposed to use that yet). I think the best "training/existing-docs" is actually Gunnar's original video in his blog entry (and reading the QML source itself). I have some questions on how some of these QML files are intended-to-be-used (e.g., what files to copy-and-change for new presentations, what to use as-is through library-import for "reusable-slide-definitions", how to physically organize files and extend standard slides for library-imports, etc.) Most of these questions, I'm sure, relate to my current mis-understanding as to how to standardize/productize QML file collections as generic-reusable-libraries (I'm delving into that now). =ROADMAP -- ? Is there one, or interest in one? I think there is *HUGE* potential here. For example: (A)- Establish good (more detailed) documentation: (1) A theory-of-op for how it works. (2) Productization of existing QML-presentation-types (bundled/ready-to-deploy) so the user can merely "import-modules" for standard-presentation-types; (e.g., "standard-module-namespaces", etc.) (3) Document minimal steps to create a new presentation, including provided "Hello World" example (using import-module from (2)) (4) How to "override/customize" the "standard" QML-presentation types to modify default behavior, with example implementation (5) How to "extend/add-to" the "standard" QML-presentation types (such as to add new "slide-types" or "slide-transitions"), with example implementation (B) Centralize presentation "Theming" so colors/fonts/etc. can be changed in a single spot for use across the presentation; enabling standardized "themes" that can be applied to a presentation. (C) Add new capability, such as using an OS or plugin-interface that auto-detects and establishes display resolutions, default fonts, etc., and style-izes the presentation at load/run-time to the local projector-or-computer. (D) Create a "QML-bundler" that establishes a self-executing presentation, or that "deploys" the QML-files collection needed to present (E) (Possibly) Create a QML-code-generator that generates the QML files for a presentation by reading in some "resource" information that describes the slides. (This is less-necessary if the user can mark-up minimal QML files directly; and more-necessary if the user is expected to copy-and-paste files to change the contents for a new presentation.) (F) Create a QML-Presentation-Authoring interface (e.g., IDE or GUI to manage slides) (G) ...etc. =WEB INFO / EXAMPLES / BLOGS I MISSED? I'm rather surprised that web searches didn't turn up more on Gunnar's QML Presentation System, like blog entries, tutorials, presentation examples, etc. Can anyone point me in that direction? (Surely I missed them somehow?) At present, I'm still trying to understand "how to use it" in the case where I need to create many presentations, and I want to share much of this logic across presentations. The "examples" run fine, but I don't understand and fail to run the "src/Src.pro" (how am I supposed to use that?) Gunnar suggested "patches welcome!" in his original blog post, so I'm trying to better understand the "use-metaphor" so I can help there. (I'm particularly interested in creating/helping-with the tooling to make it approachable to idiots, because I'm an idiot.) However, I thought it best to start with asking about: "What is the current status-and-plans for this project?", which IMHO: *- It's awesome *now*, but I want *more* *- A little bit of docs/tools would make it more approachable *- I can't understand why it's currently not being used for more presentations, as it seems like a superior metaphor/design (but perhaps not sufficiently "productized"?) --charley
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