On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Nikhil Marathe wrote: > I'm Nikhil Marathe, a second year undergrad from India. I have had an > on-off relationship with > factor over the last few years. Somehow factor is a bit like Haskell, > in that it seems that you > need to know some Programming Language Theory or something to do > useful things. I may be > wrong of course. Now I am really interested in the factor way of doing > things though. I think implementing > the Factor UI as vector graphics would be a good way for me to finally > get over my "fear" of Factor. > > I have quite a lot of experience with the Qt toolkit and am a KDE > developer. I have also experimented > with XCB. So I think I have adequate rendering knowledge for something > like this. I would like to try and implement > the toolkit as a GSoC project. I will apply if Factor gets selected. > But please do give me some feedback about > whether I'm suited for this task.
Hi Nikhil. It's great to hear you're interested in Factor GSoC. If you're interested in the vector UI project in particular, I would recommend getting started by familiarizing yourself with the existing Factor UI framework with a smaller project such as writing a simple app or implementing some widgets that are missing. The Factor UI framework is very basic compared to something like Qt, so your experience with KDE could help a lot in making it more powerful. It will also help you get a handle on what will need to change to transition it to a vector graphics-based foundation. -Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
