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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: gsoc: notetaking app for tabletpc
From:       Adam <nospam () xibo ! at>
Date:       2010-03-30 13:34:42
Message-ID: op.vadunyv6qw5b7d () legolas ! site
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:19:43 +0200, Cyrille Berger <cberger@cberger.net>  
wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 March 2010, Adam wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:34:17 +0200, Cyrille Berger <cberger@cberger.net>
>>
>> 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.


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