[GSOC] Template UI Dialog

[Cedric Bosdonnat]

Hello Rafael,

Great to see that you are still around :) Do you have exams or classes
that could conflict with GSoC? It would be great for you to join the
design at global.libreoffice.org mailing list: the guys there are eager to
work with you on this project.

IMHO, we should split the project into pieces to be able to process step
by step:
  1/ create a dialog browsing local templates.
  2/ integrate the CMIS connection into the dialog
  3/ enhance CMIS support in the template repository if needed.
  4/ enhance the dialog with some more useful infos like rating, tags...

You can contact me on IRC pretty easily during the european office
hours, but I don't know at what time of the day you'll be working. We
need to sync on the time to meet on IRC (due to the big TZ difference).

Do you have an idea where to start in the code already?

--
Cedric

On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 21:02 -0430, Rafael Dominguez wrote:
> Hello, im Rafael Dominguez, im from venezuela, first i would like to
> thank all the gsoc mentors for selecting me!!! Im really looking
> foward to work on the selected project. 
> 
> 
> 
> My proposal is refactor and design a new dialog to manage libreoffice
> templates (New templates picking UI). This templates could be fetched
> from local repositories or remote ones using the CMIS protocol.
> 
> 
> In a general sense, the schedule will be something like this:
> 
> 
> 1. - Evaluate the current design proposal in
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Templates_and_documents_rework, discuss missing ideas or known issues with UX team and finish working on the spec draft. 
> 
>     - Specially these types of questions 
> 
>               * Can we retrieve ratings??
>               * Is it possible to import styles/color schemes or
>                 something similar?
> 
> 2. - Draft required elements needed in the template dialog and
> repository, like information to be stored on the repos, how to access,
> information required to store locally (where and how).
> 
>       *      A good idea would just be to save the template locally
>         and only keep like a sort of link to the user folders created
>         by the user to save space and memory.
>       *      In the preview option we could save an example picture of
>         how the template looks like since that will always keep
>         constant.
>       * What type of metadata we gonna use?
> 
> 3. - Study how current template system works and which functionality
> could be reused or not.
> 
> 
> 4. - Implement template dialog with the final spec and use cases.
> 
> 5. - Implement repository management functionality.
> 
>               * Add, remove, change, list, set active repositories.
> 
> 6. - Integrate libreoffice template webpage with template manager
> thought CMIS.
> 
>               * Setup infrastucture locally to work and test and then
>                 go remote for final testings.
> 
> 7. - Optional (enable template libreoffice page to work with CMIS)
> 
> 8. - Optimize if needed.
> 
> 9. - Document.
> 
> 
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