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   splatbert
   

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   I have been gone for a bit for a few reasons, mostly dealing with things like school, but I'm not going to bother with telling you them.

   A couple days ago I finally hunkered down and fully learned C++ (really easy as soon as you realize that classes are just really powerful structs, and that didn't take me too long), and I think I'm ready to do some real development. Here's the plan:
   By the end of the week, have a sketch of the UI
   By the end of next week, have a glade mockup
   By the end of 5 months, have a fully working program

   What we need to do now is divide up the work. Who would like to do the UI sketch?
   Let's do this shit.

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   Posted 5 months ago #
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   dav
   

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   We have had a couple of change of directions for a few things in Bongos, namely, the default UI. Izo might post the new mockups based on a few ideas I hit him up with soon, but basically, the search and launch containment previously planned for KDE is going to still be implemented, but just with a lower priority and as a supplement to the default interface, which will be 100% webbased (locally running WSGI server with an HTML/javascript clientside interface.). So what we need are:

   * A GTK application to display a web page (probably a GTKWebkitView)
   * A daemon to keep it running
   * Applications to manipulate newly created windows to make them more optimal for netbooks (UNR has a few, I think they're opensource, but IIRC one is a mono application...we DEFINITELY don't want that.)
   * possibly some gnome-panel addons to mimic some of the useful things in the KDE interface's panel

   this time imma let it all come out
   this time imma stand up and shout
   imma do things my way, its my way, my way or the highway

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   splatbert
   

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   Also, I think they should definitely have plugin support

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   Izobalax
   

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   Ola! I'm 75%-80% of the way through a mockup refresh, so please bear with me as I appear to suddenly have design work. :3

   /izo\

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   dav
   

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   They will. The search and launch containment is going to be modular out of the box, and the backend WSGI server will also be heavily modular - middleware anyone?

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   splatbert
   

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   Looks like I'm going to have to brush up on my Python if we're doing a WSGI server (or am I thinking about the wrong thing?).
   Anyway, I was experimenting with making an interpreted programming language, I got it to work fully (was able to calculate factorials). It was relatively unoptimized, using stacks instead of binary trees to store data, and the code was pretty much unreadable (if I remember correctly, in order to factorials, for example 5, the code looked something like
   "[1 ~1 ![= ~1 0][1] $1 *2 ~1 0]|$1 5|"). However, I did enjoy making it, and would like to go back to it, so consider the language covered. If you want, I can also develop a library to go along with it, allowing for easy creation of primitives, but that doesn't sound too necessary to me.

   Posted 5 months ago #
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   splatbert
   

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   And by binary trees, I mean linked lists -_-

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   dav
   

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   erm, wut? What we need that SHOULDN'T be python, was outlined in my last post:

   * A GTK application to display a web page (probably a GTKWebkitView)
   * A daemon to keep it running
   * Applications to manipulate newly created windows to make them more optimal for netbooks (UNR has a few, I think they're opensource, but IIRC one is a mono application...we DEFINITELY don't want that.)
   * possibly some gnome-panel addons to mimic some of the useful things in the KDE interface's panel

   ...in relative order of priority. So yeah. But yes we are doing a wsgi server (we were from the start actually), but that doesn't change much. We still need an interface to it.

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   splatbert
   

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   Oops, disregard what I said about python >_<

   Posted 5 months ago #

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