Ease : presentations for the GNOME desktop: Weekly Report 07.

[Stéphane Maniaci <stephane maniaci gmail com>]

Hello team, here's my weekly report #7.
Available on my blog : http://freesteph.info/post/2010/07/12/Ease-%3A-weekly-report-7.
As PDF : http://freesteph.info/public/GSoC/Ease_weekly_report_7.pdf

1 What I have done

Week 5, I was traveling around and week 6 I got very little time to work due to visiting and such, so I decided to sum it all in that seventh weekly report, my apologies for the lack of work.

• We’re still very late for Ease 0.1, I guess this is because of life business on both sides and because we’re new to releasing. Anyway I packacked Ease for Debian, the last standing point is a “missing dependance information” about clutter-gst-1.0, it should be ready very soon ;
• Fixed “distcheck” once more, someday I’ll master Autotools... ;
• Added some error-handling to my Flickr fetcher, when you’re offline, when the request fails, etc... ;
• Added a focus feature on the player : click a point, and the whole screen shades gracefully except for the area where you clicked. An ugly rectangle at the moment, but it’s still cool ;
• Nate ported the editor window to GtkBuilder, I’m doing the same for the welcome window, but have a few issues.
• Bug fixes.

2 What’s next

• Finally release that Ease 0.1 ;
• Write a mail to the GNOME UX team (the usability list) about the presentation tips : what’s the best design to inform the presenter about remaining time/slides, time elapsed, etc... ;
• If they’re not too busy, also ask for a global review of the app ;
• Move all UI to GtkBuilder ;
• Some more plugin infrastructure ;
• YUM packages ;
• Some more unittests ;
• Drawing with COGL.

3 Timeline

I’m late on my personal expectations, but regarding my proposal, I’m pretty much on time. I still want to speed up a lot, and hopefully that should be easier now that I stopped traveling and moving around.

4 Issues/Other news

• Still looking for a cheap ticket to Amsterdam.

See you next week.