From koffice-devel Tue Mar 30 13:34:42 2010 From: Adam Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:34:42 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: gsoc: notetaking app for tabletpc Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=126995619307988 On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:19:43 +0200, Cyrille Berger wrote: > On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Adam wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:34:17 +0200, Cyrille Berger >> >> wrote: >> > On Monday 29 March 2010, Adam wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> i'm just thinking of creating a notetaking app for tabletpc users as >> a >> >> gsoc project. >> >> it should be an app similar to http://at.byu.edu/studentblog/?p=5, >> but >> >> on >> >> top of flake technology and probably including some ideas/code from >> >> cyrille's braindump. >> >> >> >> what do you say? >> >> are there already kde apps doing this, that i've not seen? >> > >> > Well when it comes to rich note taking there are indeed two >> applications, >> > braindump and basket. Since you mentioned braindump, and notetaking >> (for >> > tabletpc) is among its goal, I had like to suggest to do a gsoc >> related >> > to it. >> > In fact, I think a gsoc around a good way to create and handle shapes >> > with >> > tablet (and multi touch) would be a good idea. >> >> that shifts the goal of the gsoc a little bit away from what was in my >> mind, but actually it seems to make more sense. > My main point was to contribute to existing code base :) Entirely new > application for gsoc tends to never end on a release. you're right. > >> previously i thought of a raster background, where you can draw with the >> stylus and additional shapes, that you can put on top (similar to >> krita). >> now you shifted my thoughts to another flake shape (raster graphics), >> for >> drawing with stylus, pressure etc and additionally some simple pattern >> recognition for drawing circles, rects, lines, graphs etc in a quick but >> not raster way (better handling of shapes with the stylus and even >> mouse). > Sounds nice. > >> i'm not sure, if the second point with the pattern recognition is clear, >> so here is an example: >> with stylus or mouse you draw in braindump or kword a circle, after >> finishing it turns into a flake circle. the same with other shapes and >> if >> unrecognised, a path. this would be implemented as a tool plugin. >> >> the result of gsoc would be polishing braindump and two plugins, a tool >> and a flake shape. > What flake shape ? > a raster shape. hmm, probably the image shape is enough, so rather a simple tool to create and edit an image shape with transparent background. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel