From kde-panel-devel Thu Mar 24 19:52:15 2011 From: Marco Martin Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:52:15 +0000 To: kde-panel-devel Subject: Re: GSoC proposal : home automation Message-Id: <201103242052.15517.notmart () gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-panel-devel&m=130099634211462 On Thursday 24 March 2011, Marsollier Robin wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm preparing my proposal for GSOC and I want some feedback. > > In last discussion about it, Luca Tringali proposed an integration with > Plasma Media Center, I think it's a very good idea for long term, but for > now, domogik is in way for its 0.10 release, PMC is also expecting its > first release, and my project is only ideas. pmc really should be one of the targets, yes. > So I think it could be preferable to devellop only bases for home > automation with domogik in KDE for the moment, and I could do integration > with PCM after its first release and after this summer, with all time I > need to do it. > > I drew some drafts of what could be the plasmoids, and I have for the > moment two plasmoid : one for supervision of house in general, and one for > supervision of a single room in the building. I will upload my drafts > soon. plasmoids as desktop widgetss should stay pretty tiny and basic i think, they however can load in a full complicated glory when loaded from a tablet for instance. > I'm also thinking for a way to set up a configuration for the home, and > since that is not an item used every day (add a room, add shutters, lamps > or heating ...), I think it does'nt have its place in a plasmoid, so in a > dedicated app? Probably, for my point of view. depends if your target is to be able to control everything from a mobile, from lcd panels around the house, from tv etc, or if for some tasks you really have to sit in front of a pc > And what type of interface should I develop for it? With an other app for > conf, I think I couldn't use dataengine/services of Plasma ? So a kio ? you can link to libplasma from any app and use dataengines from everywhere, even a pure qwidget based app, if you fancy, however the result would be so "visual" that i'm not sure if an usual qwidget app has really a big place in it > I intend to start before the official start of GSoC because I travel a few > days in early june. It is a problem for mentors to work with me ​​before > official start in order to give them a little break after? :D if you can keep the overall time you working on, sure... only thing, if you start before getting officially approved, is still not *sure* it will actually get approved, eh :) > And what do you think of this? Too ambitious, not enough? if you will be able to offer working plasmoids (i would srsly go for tablet form factor as a target for the most complex ones) it would be very, very good > Presently, I'm revising my C++ (the easy part) and after, I will learn Qt, > but I must also pass my year in the same time. I would try to join you on > IRC this week-end (pseudo : rmrsllr), if I find time. would be good -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel