Hi everyone,
To read my first weekly report in your browser, visit:
http://paul.kishimoto.name/297
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Hello, Planet GNOME! I'm Paul Kishimoto, working this summer on Getting
Things GNOME! as part of Google's Summer of Code. You've already heard
from Luca and Karlo, my partners in crime coding.
To complement both Karlo's web-based interface to GTG (which will let
you access your tasks from anywhere) and Luca's multi-backend overhaul
(which will let you store them anywhere), I will be working on a
client-server separation in GTG. If you are interested, you can read
details in my work plan.
The possibility of client-server separation in GTG will be largely
enabled by the wonderful DBus. Accordingly, I have spent a good amount
of time vacuuming down the excellent DBus documentation in an effort to
get beyond being a mere hacker and to the point where I can exploit its
features fully.
Once you board the bus, there are many people already on it to talk to.
It also turns out that some of those people care about tasks, in similar
ways to GTG!, and furthermore there are other task enthusiasts who don't
yet ride the bus. So, my second work item for this week was to map out
exactly what GTG thinks a task is, and then go about comparing it to
other tools, including (in no particular order) Tracker, Hamster,
Zeitgeist, Planner, and more.
Understanding these relationships is key to making GTG! work together
closely and intelligently with whatever set of other applications each
user prefers, ultimately giving them the freedom to work in the way they
want.
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Cheers,
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Paul Kishimoto
MASc candidate (2010), Flight Systems & Control Group
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS)
http://paul.kishimoto.name — +19053029315
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