2010/3/15 Christophe Olinger <oling...@binarylooks.com> > 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 >
Hi Cristophe, I totally agree with Marco so just follow his hints. I just wanted to let you know that we both are on IRC [1] so you can join us and start working on the mediacenter if you mind. There are also some ideas for this-year GSoC [2] if you want to have a look at them and eventually start writing your own proposal. You can ping me (alediaferia) or Marco (notmart) on #plasma or #plasma-mediacenter. Cheers! [1] chat.freenode.net [2] http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas -- Alessandro Diaferia KDE Developer KDE e.V. member
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