Re: Project idea : presentation tool for the GNOME desktop

[Stéphane Maniaci <stephane maniaci gmail com>]

Given the nature of the problem, you'd probably need to mention that you
would carry on maintaining the project after your first bout with the
code.

I would be glad to maintain it !

I don't want to demotivate, but founding a completely new project is way
more complicated than joining or reviving an existing project,

I
 was aware of Agnubis and Criawpis, and found that those were dead 
projects too. I think it's becoming easier to program such tools, with 
the help of Clutter and Python/Vala.

I know of at least two people who've started similar projects, though I have no idea how far they've gotten:

Thanks for the links, I had never heard of them before (they 
didn't exist 6 months ago, that might be why). I haven't checked and 
built their projects yet, but I think they both have a good start. To 
quote the homepage of the first one (Ease) :

> this 
> semester I will be developing a new desktop presentation 
> application for GNOME, entitled "Ease". Currently, the de facto choice 
> in this area is OpenOffice.org Impress, which is poorly integrated into 
> the desktop and is, in my opinion, a very clumsy and badly designed 
> application in general. Compared to Apple's Keynote 
> or even 
> PowerPoint, Impress is a decidedly weak option. 

which
 is exactly what I think. What should I do then ? I don't want to 
duplicate their effort even though I'd be glad to work on such projects,
 and I don't think I can join them as a GSoC task, can I ?

Thanks for the answers, 

Stéphane.