On Sunday, 2013-04-28, Michael Bohlender wrote: > > doing them strictly one after another. in order to make sure that we at > > least > > have _something_ working in the end, come what may. > > Maybe you can chop your work into different UI parts which each get a > > design > > and an implementation cycle, instead of one big design cycle folowed by > > one big implementation cycle. > > Sounds very reasonable to me. > I divided the work into 5 tasks: > # general layout > # mail list > # display mail > # compose mail > # folder (or whatever way we come up to browse the mail) > > We could do 4 of them working 3 weeks on each task with a qml > mockup/prototype followed by the actual implementation. > I can use the idle time (waiting for your feedback) during each mockup > phase to do small tasks like porting a button or things like that.
Sounds reasonable. > I am a little worried that the whole project is too much work for me in the > given time. Like stated before "asking for a full rewrite of a mail > application UI within a single GSOC is asking for a bit much". If I don't > progress as expected we could skip one of the above tasks and instead focus > on polishing the remaining three. That can usually be decided during the course of GSoC, basically a joint decision by mentor and student. It is almost always better to have a smaller ser of deliverables completed than to have the orginal set in various stages of completion. > Going completely crazy: The whole project looks a lot more achievable if I > pick Tasks or Notes instead of Mail... > But I guess we can't come up with a UX that will work across Kontact Touch > as some problems will only show with complex applications like Mail ? I think it would be OK either way from the PIM perspective, but I guess the PA people really want the mail functionality. > I think we need to start earlier with the mockups for the general design as > we wont have that much time during the GSoC period as I hoped. I > will try to come up with some Pencil mockups next weeks so that we have a > head start. Very cool! We should also check if we can tailor the GSoC work such that it fits better into the the given timeframe. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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