*Good morning/day/night, Plasma team!* * My name is Alexander Argutin and I’m a 3-d grade student of South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation. I’m writing you a letter because I found interesting an idea of the GSoC, so I would like to take this chance. Why so late?)) Maybe because is too late and short summer in Russia)*
*According to the Application template on a site, every GSoC student candidate should give info about himself and his proposed project. Here it is:* *Name: **Alexander Argutin* *Email Address: **Alex dot Argutin at gmail dot com* *Freenode IRC Nick: **Hornman* *Location (City, Country and/or Time Zone): **Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation, GMT +5:00 (Yekaterinburg)* *Proposal Name:* New Widget Explorer (from ideas list)** *Motivation for Proposal / Goal:** What differs developers and users? …except their abilities of coding)... Developers know what they want from the computer and applications. And that’s why there is a problem for developers – how to create soft that will explain user what does he want. **Today developers have all equipment to do it: *translucent widgets of a streamline, animated effects of soft light and shadow, reflexions etc... There are no more boundaries of a desktop, no more statics, no more obstacles for understanding between a user and a computer. *This project is a step to* a lightweight widget-oriented UI concept. Main goal is to bring a visitor to a widget-library, to let him make a choice easily and to make him understand that all his dreams are true and most of his problems will be solved easily by doing a few clicks... *Implementation Details:* Developing Phases: *Phase 0 (5%):* Common architecture building, learning technologies, asking questions. This step brings knowledge about KDE and Plasma environment, structures of an application and its basic functional blocks. The most general questions concerning architecture, and concerning realization are being asked to the mentor at this stage. On this step application will be divided on such blocks as: - Search Block SB will solve problems of looking for a widget, sorting widgets and rating explosion. - View block VB will solve problems of easy and comfortable UI with a controller functions (MVC scheme) - Adoption block AB will be the most capacious and also will be divided. It will solve problems of widget support, placing, install and launch. *Phase 1 (20%):* Designing UI and usability analysis This stage assumes designing of the UI according to the standards of usability, graphic effects, and the whole application view. This stage comes at the beginning of the development because the design is one of the most significant parts of this project. *Phase 2 (10%):* UML architecture building, creating a kernel concept This phase consists from construction of diagrams of precedents, classes and logic design of a product. Main objective of this stage is working out of the flexible architecture, supporting all predictable widgets and third party services. *Phase 4 (30%):* Designing interfaces, business-logic and project features *Phase 3 (45%):* Developing main project blocks prototypes Phase of main coding and algorithmization. *Phase 4 (60%):* Assembling main blocks. Beta *Phase 5 (70%):* Beta-testing and cleaning bug-reports This stage means removing all bugs and holes found in a project. *Phase 7 (85%): *Ending development Finishing main parts, realization of the third party widgets, trying different platforms, and little features realisation. *Phase 8 (100%):* Release *Tentative Timeline:** If the work will be started *at the first days of April, Beta version will be expected in the first decade of June. If succeeds, all the work will be done till the end of July – beginning of August. *Do you have other obligations from late May to early August (school, work, etc.)?*: I will have to pass the exams at the end of June. That’s all serious plans for this time if the project will live. I don’t think my study will affect my work on project or vice versa, because I study at university only perfectly well. *About Me (let us know who you are!): **F*irst of all I’m a student. And I like this condition because it feels cool to be a student! =) I like computers and all things linked to them: gadgets, devices, coding, gaming, business-modeling, even the programming of microprocessors in assembler language... Once I’ve chosen this path I’ve never felt sorry about it. Why? Of course because it’s future! Unfortunately, there is no magic in our world like in games, but there is a technology, so isn’t it a power? So, my heart is in the IT sphere…) There are many things I can tell about myself. I like creative activities and respect people who is engaged in them. That’s why I like music and poetry. What about my own future? I don’t think it’s predictable, but I always try to make it happy. *Yours faithfully, Alexander.*
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