Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 17:30, Fabian Sturm <f@rtfs.org> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I won't be a mentor and unfortunately can't be a student but I would
> like to make a project proposel.
>
> "Design of an api for embeding abiword as a widget in third party
> applications"
>
> The action items could be:
>
> - Search for existing rich text widgets (in Gtk, Qt, MFC...)
>
> - Compare the existing widgets apis and try to find out what works good
> and what not
>
> - Compare different applications embedding a rich text widget and find
> out what was easy for the developer to achive and what was hard (e.g.
> look at tomboy, sugar write, gedit...)
>
> - Make a proposal for an easy to use widget api based on the
> libabiwidget api
>
> - Adapt libabiwidget api to this new/improved design
>
> - Code small sample programs showing the different functions to use the
> widget (load/save documents, change text style from code, embed links
> etc.)
>
>
> Do you think something like this would be a good idea?

FWIW, I think this is a very good idea.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Thanks a lot, Fabian
>
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2009, 12:11 -0500 schrieb Dominic Lachowicz:
>> me too.
>>
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Received on Mon Mar 2 16:16:38 2009