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List:       ktexteditor-devel
Subject:    Re: GSoC proposal: "Kobby"
From:       Anders Lund <anders () alweb ! dk>
Date:       2008-03-21 7:53:12
Message-ID: 200803210853.12194.anders () alweb ! dk
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On Friday 21 March 2008, Alex Merry wrote:
> I'm interested in applying for one of the suggested GSoC projects: a
> KTextEditor plugin for Infinote, the replacement for Gobby.
>
> This list seemed the most related one for this proposal.  I've also
> included Andreas Ramm in the email, as he was suggested as the mentor for
> the project on the ideas page.

Redirecting to ktexteditor-devel@ ;)

> Included below is what I've come up with for my application.   It's a little
> over the character limit for the synopsis for the application form, but I
> would put this in a PDF file and link to it from my application.
>
> Any comments/criticisms/advice would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> Kobby - Alex Merry
>
> Collaborative editing is very useful, particularly in the
> open source community where the people involved may be
> spread across countries and continents.  A discussion held
> over IRC or Jabber can often be greatly enhanced if the
> participants are able to edit, in real time, a related
> document or even simply a meeting report.
>
> A common open source application used for this currently is
> Gobby, which uses the obby library as its backend.  The
> successor to Gobby will be Infinote.  A working (although
> not yet complete) library exists for this.  This is split
> so that the core functionality is separate from the GTK+
> integration.
>
> The goal of this GSoC project would be to implement a
> KTextEditor::Plugin that would provide collaborative text
> editing to any application that can use a KatePart, such
> as KWrite, Kate, Kile or KDevelop.
>
> The structure of libinfinity lends itself to this integration.
> It provides a core library (libinfinote) and a text note
> plugin (libinfinote could be used to power other forms
> of collaborative editing, such as SVG editing).  There are
> also libraries providing GTK+ integration - libinfgtk provides
> integration of libinfinote into the GLib loop as well as
> related GTK+ widgets, and libinftextgtk provides a GTK+
> text buffer.
>
> This project has the chance to provide great benefit to KDE,
> allowing its users to concurrently edit a text document in
> real time with each other and with GNOME or other users
> (when the main Infinote client and/or GEdit integration is
> complete).
>
>
>
> Tasks:
>
> 1. Qt Integration
>
> A KDE-equivalent of the libinfgtk library would be needed,
> providing a Qt/KDE-style C++ API for libinfinote, including
> providing the relevant widgets.
>
>
> 2. InfTextBuffer Implementation
>
> The InfTextBuffer interface is used to store the text
> for the document being edited by libinftext.  It is
> necessary to implement it and provide a backend, which
> should be a Qt or Qt-style class.
>
> A possibility for this is QTextDocument, which can store
> information such as text colour.

Can't we implement this as a KTE interface, and use KateParts storage as 
implementation as far as KatePart is concerned? Forgive me if I misunderstand 
teh purpose, as I have no idea how infinote works.

>
> 3. KTextEditor Plugin
>
> The above libraries can then be used by a plugin that
> provides the KTextEditor::Document interface.  This should
> obviously provide the expected colourisation of text
> depending on the user that wrote it, but also needs to
> provide various other features such as an interface for
> connecting, an interface for messaging other collaborators
> and a legend for the colours belonging to the participants.
>
>
> Time:
>
> A certain amount of time needs to be spent becoming familiar
> with libinfinote and related libraries, which is written in an
> unfamiliar style (it is GLib/GObject based), although it is
> documented.
>
> I would expect to spend the majority of the time on the
> KDE interface to libinfinote, as most of the widgets
> will be included here.
>
> The remainder of the time would be split between providing
> the implementation of InfTextBuffer and wrapping it up
> into a KTextEditor plugin.
>
>
>
> Biography:
>
> I am in my fourth year of my undergraduate masters in
> Mathematics and Computer Science.  I got involved with the
> KDE project at the start of 2007, learning C++ and Qt to
> do so.  I started doing various junior jobs in the core
> KDE libraries, and then got involed in Plasma development
> when it kicked off later that year.
>
> My biggest programming projects to date have both involved
> Qt: the nowplaying data engine and applet for Plasma and
> my final year project for my degree course.
>
> I can generally be found on #kde-devel and #plasma as
> randomguy3.



-- 
Anders

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