GSoC Idea - Better history plugin

2015-03-05 Thread Joshua Joseph
Hello all, I am interested in working on this idea. I have some Qt experience, and I am a contributor to the Subsurface project. I believe that the new history plugin will be based in SQLite or XML, has work on it started, or is it a new plugin? -- Thanks, Joshua ___

Re: GSoC Idea - Better history plugin

2015-03-05 Thread Pali Rohár
On Thursday 05 March 2015 13:22:15 Joshua Joseph wrote: > Hello all, > > I am interested in working on this idea. I have some Qt > experience, and I am a contributor > to the Subsurface project. > > I believe that the new history plugin will be based in SQLite > or XML, has work on it started, >

Re: GSoC Idea - Better history plugin

2015-03-05 Thread Joshua Joseph
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2015 13:22:15 Joshua Joseph wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am interested in working on this idea. I have some Qt > > experience, and I am a contributor > > to the Subsurface project. > > > > I believe that the new history p

Re: GSoC Idea - Better history plugin

2015-03-05 Thread me
> Also development of new plugin does not have to be from scratch. > Maybe for somebody existing plugins could be good start point. > > -- > Pali Rohár > pali.ro...@gmail.com I’m sure they will not. I took a look at their source code earlier and it’s a complete mess. There’s literally one hu

Re: GSoC Idea - Better history plugin

2015-03-05 Thread Joshua Joseph
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:01 PM, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2015 19:37:38 m...@jtalk.me wrote: > > > Also development of new plugin does not have to be from > > > scratch. Maybe for somebody existing plugins could be good > > > start point. > > > > I’m sure they will not. I took a l

Re: GSoC Idea - Better history plugin

2015-03-05 Thread Pali Rohár
On Thursday 05 March 2015 19:37:38 m...@jtalk.me wrote: > > Also development of new plugin does not have to be from > > scratch. Maybe for somebody existing plugins could be good > > start point. > > I’m sure they will not. I took a look at their source code > earlier and it’s a > > complete mess

Re: Request for being my mentor

2015-03-05 Thread Pali Rohár
On Thursday 05 March 2015 13:27:33 Pragya Anand wrote: > Hello Pali, > This is me, Pragya. I want to work on the project "Better > History Plugin" under you. I have knowledge of C++. Rest,I > will work though these days. I will give all my effort if I > get a chance to do so. > Thanking you in anti

Re: GSoC Idea - Better history plugin

2015-03-05 Thread kaushik
Hi Joshua, Welcome to Kopete. Understanding the existing plugin code and redesigning it will be the best way to go for it. However understanding the existing code will not be that easy. You will need some familiarity with these Kopete::Contact and Kopete::MetaContact. The logic inside HistoryLog

Re: Request for being my mentor

2015-03-05 Thread kaushik
Hi Pragya, Welcome to Kopete. If you are interested in working with Kopete - History Plugin, you should first make yourself familiar with Kopete code base. Like Pali said, best way to do that is to contribute in some way to kopete. It does not have to be major change, it can also be as small as d