Hey plasma people, My name is Christophe Olinger from Luxembourg (nick binarylooks) and I am following KDE and especially plasma for a few years now. I learned C++ a looong time ago (10 years?) and basically I fear it’s all gone. Nevertheless, I am trying to get into it again especially using Qt. If somebody is interested in these kind of things: I am 29.9 years old and have a PhD in molecular biology and worked in the bioinformatics field. Soon to be father and I hope my immense motivation in coding will continue.
My main interest lies in getting plasma bling (am I allowed to say bling?). Onto netbooks and later tablets. I really like the current plasma-netbook workspace and right now I am thinking about creating a sort of really simple picture viewer. Since I can basically be considered a C++ newbie I am a bit afraid of jumping into an existing project yet. I need to learn. I am currently dissecting the frame plasmoid to learn about the painter and QPixmaps. (I know about plasma media center and will have a look at it. If I learn enough with my pet project, I will surely start contributing to it) What the viewer should do: v0.1: Display an image, allow swiping to switch image. Allow a single image mode and a browse mode. The browse mode will be a grid of images and you can pan through the grid. Tapping an image will switch to single picture mode. All this should be fullscreen and feel natural v0.2 use nepomuk and other stuff to filter your collection, tag images and rotate them. No additional manipulation I would appreciate some intial help to get started so here my questions *Should I learn Qt quick for this and do all this in declarative? *Should I use plasmalibs as basis for this or start it as a new qt (kdelibs) app? *Should this be a C++ plasmoid that I can later tie to a new containment to make it fullscreen? *Should I code this as a new containment type? like SAL or newspaper and this would be picture viewer? *Could I do this with a javascript plasmoid? I guess not easily *Should a start with gwenview as basis? and add a new viewmode to gwenview? Thanks for bearing with me. Christophe _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
