[maemo-community] Xournal

[From: tero.kojo at nokia.com]

----- Original message -----
>
> Here I share my idea of next versions for Xournal for Maemo:
>
> Beta Relese
>
> sometime end of September
> fully working, few things to iron out.
> New feature: mail / bt sharing
>
> First stable release:
>
> mid/October
> Working release of Xournal with as many bugs squashed out
> Fully adapted to Maemo 5
> Ready for the mass. No new notable feature.
>
> Next release
>
> Sometime before Christmas
> - Sharing feature to be extended to on-line services:
>   - Google Docs
>   - Evernote
>   - You name it
>
> New features:
> - On-Line PDF annotation:
>   1 Select on-line PDF (from Gdocs/Evernote/bla)
>   2 Annotate as usual
>   3 PDF is only kept in local cache
>   4 the Xournal own file stores the PDF remote location (of course you
> can choose to bind a
>      permanent copy of it as it does now)
>
> This On-Line PDF annotation allows the user to share only the
> annotations with users and have a single copy of the PDF in a remote
> location.
> Use case: a student shares a PDF with exam to Prof. Prof annotates
> errors, sends back annotations to user; user opens it as usual.
> Pro: Smaller file to send around.
> Cons: Online copy of PDF might disappear.
>
> - Speech / Scribble recognition
>   - anyone knows a good library for those?
>
> - Attach Audio/Video to notes
>   - rough idea. How would you annotate an audio or a video?
>     First things that comes to mind: lyrics style?
>
> Suggestions? Ideas?

Excellent plan.

Question / request.
I hope to see Xournal in extras-testing way before the planned launches. Will it be there?
That way you'd get more feedback early in the process.

Tero

> Aniello
>
> 2009/9/17 Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel at gmail.com<mailto:anidel at gmail.com>>:
> > Thanks Tim,
> >
> > You're right an all points.. The menus need a lot of work still, I
> > need to think on how to better adapt all those Xournal actions.
> >
> > As for the icons, I can't find where are the names of the Hildon stock ones.
> > I found the fullscreen icon name "general_fullsize" in the Terminal
> > source code and almost by mistake.
> >
> > Indeed I'd like to get icons for the actions that feel right in place
> > for Maemo 5.
> > I'll use as many stock ones as possible once I find a list of the
> > names, but same will be missing anyway (like pressure sensitivity
> > icon).
> >
> > I will not put many icons in the toolbar, but it is customizable by
> > editing an .xml file, so anyway can choose his own set of mostly used
> > actions. Thus I need icons for many actions.
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback!
> > Aniello
> >
> > 2009/9/17 Tim Samoff <tim at samoff.com<mailto:tim at samoff.com>>:
> > > Aniello,
> > >
> > > ext Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I've released a new alpha version of Xournal.
> > > > The biggest change I would to hear about is that I removed the
> > > > scrollbars and used the Hand tools to pan around.
> > > >
> > > > Do you guys think it's better now ?
> > >
> > > Definitely better. And, I'm glad it actually works as intended now. :)
> > >
> > > I'd suggest changing out the Gtk+ icons for stock Maemo 5 icons if
> > > possible. If you need extras created for anything, let me know.
> > >
> > > Also, as I'm sure you know, the menu needs a lot of work in order to
> > > conform to the Maemo 5 HIG.
> > >
> > > Lastly, is pressure sensitivity actually supposed to work? If so, it
> > > doesn't see to be working.
> > >
> > > Overall, Xournal is working great under Maemo 5! This is such a cool
> > > applcation. (I hope someday it has text recognition!) ;)
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Tim
> > >
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> >
> > --
> >
> > --
> > anidel
> > Sent from London, Eng, United Kingdom
> >
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