2 Nov 2006 15:33
Re: Umbrello !
Jonathan Riddell <jr <at> jriddell.org>
2006-11-02 14:33:13 GMT
2006-11-02 14:33:13 GMT
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:12:24PM +0000, hassan kouch wrote: > We are a group of students from Toulouse University in France. We are > planning to work on the Umbrello project with Mr. Kevin Ottens > (ervin <at> kde.org), as our supervisor. Salut, I'm very pleased to have you on board, especially since I hear you're taking the extra risk of working on the KDE 4 version. > That being said, we would like to propose that our group works on the > following project features: > - Performance of the software. > - UML 2.0 support. > - SQL code generator (import and export). > - Undo/Redo feature. > - Automatic graphical objects page-layout. All sound great. It might be a good idea to document your plans for each of these changes. For example I'm not sure what needs to be done for UML 2 support, but it would be great to find out and have it done. We already have undo/redo of course but it's very primitive and memory intensive (just saving the whole diagram to memory with each change), would be great to have a proper framework for this specified and implemented. Automatic graphical objects page-layout can be done with graphviz, we already have code for that but it links directly to graphviz which is not GPL compatible so we can't use it, changing it to export to Graphviz's Dot file format and import again would be the(Continue reading)

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