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From: <alex.argutin () gmail ! com>
Date: 2009-03-31 16:03:24
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*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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<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Good morning/day/night, Plasma team!</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; \
font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>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)</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-indent: 35.4pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" \
lang="EN-US">According to the Application template on a site, every GSoC student \
candidate should give info about himself and his proposed project. Here it \
is:</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Name: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" \
lang="EN-US">Alexander Argutin</span></strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Email Address: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">Alex \
dot Argutin at gmail dot com</span></strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Freenode IRC Nick: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" \
lang="EN-US">Hornman</span></strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US"> <strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";">Location (City, Country and/or Time \
Zone): </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;">Chelyabinsk, \
Russian Federation, GMT +5:00 (Yekaterinburg)</span></strong><span \
style=""></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Proposal Name:</span></strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> New Widget Explorer (from \
ideas list)<b><span style="color: red;"></span></b></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Motivation for Proposal / Goal:</span></strong><strong><span \
style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" \
lang="EN-US"> 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. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">Today \
developers have all equipment to do it: </span></strong><span \
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">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 </span></span><span \
class="refresult"><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">obstacles \
</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">for understanding between a \
user and a computer.</span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; \
font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">This project is a step to</span></strong><span \
class="refresult"><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> 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...</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US"> <strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";">Implementation \
Details:</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US"> Developing Phases:</span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Phase 0 (5%):</span></i><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Common architecture \
building, learning technologies, asking questions.</span></p>
<p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">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.</span></span><span \
style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">On this step application will be divided on such blocks as:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"><span style="">-<span \
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: \
normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: \
none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Search Block</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">SB will solve problems of \
looking for a widget, sorting widgets and rating explosion.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"><span style="">-<span \
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: \
normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: \
none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">View block</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">VB will solve problems of \
easy and comfortable UI with a controller functions (MVC scheme)</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"><span style="">-<span \
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: \
normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: \
none; font-stretch: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Adoption block</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">AB will be the most \
capacious and also will be divided. It will solve problems of widget support, \
placing, install and launch. </span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Phase 1 (20%):</span></i><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Designing UI and usability \
analysis</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="" lang="EN-US">This \
stage assumes designing of the UI accor</span></span><span \
class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;" \
lang="EN-US">ding 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 </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: \
115%;" lang="EN-US">significant parts of this project.</span><span style="" \
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Phase 2 (10%):</span></i><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> UML architecture building, \
creating a kernel concept</span></p>
<p><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">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.</span></span><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Phase 4 (30%):</span></i><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Designing interfaces, \
business-logic and project features</span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Phase 3 (45%):</span></i><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Developing main project \
blocks prototypes</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Phase of main coding and <span \
class="apple-style-span">algorithmization.</span></span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Phase 4 (60%):</span></i><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Assembling main blocks. \
Beta</span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Phase 5 (70%):</span></i><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Beta-testing and cleaning \
bug-reports</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">This stage means removing all bugs and holes found in a \
project.</span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Phase 7 (85%): </span></i><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">Ending \
development</span><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> <br> </span></p><p><span \
style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"><span \
style="">F</span>inishing main parts, </span><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">realization of the third \
party widgets, trying different platforms<span style="">, </span>and little features \
realisation.</span></p>
<p><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Phase 8 (100%):</span></i><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> Release</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Tentative Timeline:</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US"> If \
the work will be started </span></strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Do you have other obligations from late May to early August (school, \
work, etc.)?</span></strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">I will have </span><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">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.</span><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><span \
style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">About Me (let us know who you are!): </span></strong><strong><span \
style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;" \
lang="EN-US">F</span></strong><span style="font-family: \
"Calibri","sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">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…)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">What about my own future? I don’t think it’s predictable, but I always \
try to make it happy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";" \
lang="EN-US">Yours faithfully, Alexander.</span></b></p>
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