Customizable Print Formats GSoC 2015

Tomaz Canabrava tcanabrava at kde.org
Tue Mar 3 07:06:08 PST 2015


Grantlee is a very good library, if we need to suporte custom, user
templates,  that is the choice to make.

Em Ter, 3 de mar de 2015 09:06, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> On 3 March 2015 at 01:10, Gehad Elrobey <gehadelrobey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As Subsurface became a mentoring organization in GSoC '15  so I am
> willing
> > to join this year under Subsurface organization.
> >
> > I am interested in the idea of "Adding customizable print formats".
> > I am specially interested in this idea as subsurface lacks good printing
> > capabilities and also this project will be some how related to the HTML
> > codebase I wrote in my project last year.
> >
> > Before I start writing my proposal I would like to know the community's
> (and
> > Lubomir for sure as the mentor) opinions and expectations about the
> project?
> > and what do you think is missing mainly in the current printing system?
> >
>
> some random thoughts,
>
> i would agree that some research and user feedback is needed here,
> since as a non-user the current printing capabilities seem static but
> sufficient to me!
> the facebook share is even less flexible than what we have for
> printing. perhaps it's possible to unify the backend for social
> network share layouting and the print layouting, since doing a
> printout is probably for the purpose of sharing:
>
> - ShareLayout could be the backend for what i describe
> - a ShareLayout will determine the social network share or printout layout
> - having or not having the profile or the table could be a toggle
> option in ShareLayout
> - ShareLayoutOptions could be the frontend that the user interacts
> with and it generates a ShareLayout
> - the current PrintLayout could arrange ShareLayouts e.g. user defined
> NxM layouts
> - the facebook share will upload a single ShareLayout
>
> i would ditch the QTablexxxxxx implementations completely and
> implement a custom QPainter that is HTML template based (and probably
> quite slow).
> Tomaz at some point proposed a Qt template library for custom
> printing, but i don't like the idea of adding even more dependencies
> to Subsurface. if others approve of that, i would do the same.
>
> this part from the ideas page is important:
> "But the team is open to other ideas that solve the underlying
> problem: being able to customize the print output to include the
> information that the user perceives as relevant and giving the user
> control over major style elements like font sizes and positioning of
> the various data."
>
> i think, before you start writing the proposal users should provide
> feedback on what level of customization they want from the print
> layouting.
> Davide, Robert - any ideas?
>
> lubomir
> --
>
> p.s. please mind there is a chance that i could be AFK for weeks
> during the GSoC period.
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