Re: Google Summer of Code 2009

OK, it's up there now :-)

http://www.abisource.com/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2009#Design_of_an_api_for_embeding_abiword_as_a_widget_in_third_party_applications

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu@sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 01:14, Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, I think so too. I think I can mentor this and I'll add it to the
>> list. Tomeu would you like to mentor this project? If you would I'd be
>> happy to pass any interested students to you and list you as a
>> potential abiword mentor.
>
> I'm already planning to mentor one or two students for SugarLabs, but
> if enough other people volunteer for that, I might be able to mentor
> for abiword instead. I think I will be able to tell in a couple of
> weeks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu@sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
Received on Tue Mar 3 10:58:40 2009