Hi all, as I have defined most of the UI concepts in Kontact Touch I would be willing to support any project as good as I can.
There are lots of ideas that have not been realized during the initial project. I would love to see some more to come real! So my offer to Thomas - I would support your co-mentorship :) Cheers, Björn Am Dienstag, 26. Februar 2013, 19:08:48 schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer: > On Tuesday 26 February 2013 17:12:43 Michael Bohlender wrote: > > I'd like to participate in GSOC 2013. This year’s theme is "KDE++ aka > > polish everything" so Kontact Touch seems to be a good candidate in my > > eyes. > > Absolutely! Kontact Touch is one of our strong points functionality-wise, > but the UI clearly needs a major face lift for it to become a prime Plasma > Active citizen. So yes, it is a great candidate for polishing! > > > Now I am looking for a mentor and the right scope for my project. I want > > to > > do mostly UI work. Would porting things over to plasma-qml components be > > a > > good project? > > Since this is work which will have a major impact on Plasma Active's overall > user experience, I'd like to be a co-mentor for the UX/usability > perspective of things. I guess the primary mentor for a GSoC project needs > to know more about the code, though, so we'll still need a developer as > mentor. > > I am not sure how much work that will be and if I can manage to port every > > application of the suite in the given time. So maybe just focus on one or > > two? > > As Aaron already wrote: Yes, you'll definitely have to focus on some part of > Kontact Touch, you can't do it all in one project. > > > The UI seems to be designed with a smaller form factor in mind. Is it > > supposed to stay this way or am I free to experiment and make it more > > suitable for tablet use? > > It is not supposed to stay this way and you are free to experiment, but > since you'll likely define some new standards with this, I'd like to > co-mentor you to keep an eye on things. > _______________________________________________ > Active mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active -- Dipl.-Psych. Björn Balazs Business Management & Research T +49 30 6098548-21 | M +49 179 4541949 User Prompt GmbH | Psychologic IT Expertise Grünberger Str. 49, 10245 Berlin | www.user-prompt.com HRB 142277 | AG Berlin Charlottenburg | Geschäftsführer Björn Balazs _______________________________________________ Active mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
