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GSoC weekly report - issue 11

nospam@example.com (William Viana Soares) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:44:30 -0400

Here I am again, this time from aKademy 2008 in Belgium. It is my first akademy and as an experience it was awesome. The best part was meeting the people behind the nicknames. The community is great and it’s huge. Over 300 people came to the event, what is overwhelming. I’ve learnt many things, talked to many experienced people who really knows what they are talking about.

The organization of the event was perfect, there were many interesting talks, it’s a shame I’ve had to miss some of them. The social event sponsored by Nokia and the boat trip today were really really awesome (free beer, free food, what else could you ask?).

The only bad thing was that it was not really very productive in terms of code but it was really helpful to meet some of the plasma guys who were really kind to me and helped me a lot.

What was also very cool was the n810 that Nokia gave to some of us (a lot of us). It has become the favorite toy arround akademy. It would be really nice to have amarok playing on one of those with an adapted UI for the touch screen. Maybe someday, who knows ?

As for the Summer of Code program, well, it’s coming to an end and I still have lots of things to do, what is making me feel a little bit worried. I’ll have keep coding after deadline (18th august) to go as further as I can.

No snapshots this week, sorry

GSoC weekly report - issue 10

nospam@example.com (William Viana Soares) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:54:27 -0400

GSoC weekly report issue 9

nospam@example.com (William Viana Soares) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:42:51 -0400

GSoC weekly report issues 7 and 8

nospam@example.com (William Viana Soares) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:22:39 -0400

SoC weekly report - issue 5

nospam@example.com (William Viana Soares) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:29:28 -0400

Five weeks have passed and now is when I’ve just started to tame Plasma. Let’s start with the snapshots.

Now when an applet doesn’t fit in the current containment it’s sent to the next availiable one. I’ve also added a header on top of the containments with a label which will allow users to name the containments.

Applets in a column are now hidden when the Context View widget is resized and there is not enough space to paint them in a usable way. They are shown again when there is enough space for them.

What I’m currently missing is a way to highlight the current selected containment. I’m thinking of using a glowing border on the containment to accomplish that.

Next week I’ll be working in redesign the Current Track applet and in a different approach to add applets to the Context View.

The applet browser approach to add applets might not be the better way in our case so I’ve been thinking of something like this:

I hope I can get some artwork help. These are early mockups but (I hope) they do not need much explanation.

In the redesign of the Current Track applet I’ve asked a friend with actual artistic skills to do a mockup and he did an excellent job IMHO. This is what he did.

Thanks Jacobo