Re: GSoC 2009 - Mind Mapping Tool

[Eddy Zavaleta <ezavaleta users sourceforge net>]

On 11/03/2009, at 08:30 AM, Adam Schreiber wrote:


> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Eddy Zavaleta
> <ezavaleta users sourceforge net> wrote:
>
> > I was looking for an opinion because I submitted other idea to the
> > evince team and “not interested” was the answer.
>
> That's not surprising as a mind mapping application would not be
> within evince's purview.

I gave you the wrong idea with the evince team, I proposed to add  
support for CHM files and not mind mapping :-)

> Off the top of my head, this seems like a visualize notebook plugin
> for Tomboy.  Given that most of the l.g.o ideas dealed with tasks,
> this would probably work out well since Tomboy has a Tasque plugin and
> Tasque supports EDS as a backend.

All the task stuff sounds really great but I really want to focus on  
a pretty application with basic functionality because I have heard  
many times that Freemind is not used because its appearance. Also I  
think shapes and colors are really important to mind maps not just  
relationships among concepts. I use tomboy for everyday notes but I  
did not know Tasque and
I like to the way Tasque add new tasks I think simple is always best  
(thanks for the reference), it could be useful for new branches and  
using auto-positioning would be a nice feature. EDS support could be  
a wish feature.

> > I have been reading about Clutter and it seems to be the new  
> > direction
> > to take in graphical apps. I already followed this tutorial
> > [http://www.openismus.com/documents/clutter_tutorial/0.9/docs/ 
> > tutorial/html/index.html]
> > (I am not sure to understand  pretty much  the concept) but I made a
> > little school project using Clutter and It seems nice to me.
> > I will start creating a proposal draft and I would like to get some
> > help, especially in delimitation and the approach to take. Where  
> > can I
> > put/send it?
> >
> > Thanks for reply.
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Adam Schreiber  
> > <sadam clemson edu> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Eddy Zavaleta
> > > <ezavaleta users sourceforge net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > My name is Eddy Zavaleta, an student from ESCOM/IPN (National  
> > > > Polytechnic
> > > > Institute), which is in Mexico City, Mexico.
> > > >
> > > > I want to participate in GSoC 2009, I read the article Mind Mapping
> > > > [http://live.gnome.org/MindMapping] and I would like to get  
> > > > involved with
> > > > the gnome project, I want to start developing a Mind Mapping  
> > > > application for
> > > > the GNOME Desktop.
> > >
> > > That looks like a good idea for a proposal.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Maybe you can give me some advice for addressing this proposal,  
> > > > I already
> > > > send a mail to the gnome-list mailing list but nobody answers.
> > >
> > > That's because gnome-list is very low traffic and is  
> > > inappropriate for
> > > this kind of message.  gnome-soc-list gnome org is what you wanted.
> > >
> > > I would think Clutter would be ideal for this kind of interface.
> > > Other than that I'm not sure what kind of help you're looking for in
> > > writing a proposal.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Eddy Zavaleta
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Adam
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Eddy Zavaleta
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