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["Daniel Foré" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To be clear, what I'm saying is maybe we shouldn't be trying to make up stuff to do just to participate in Gsoc when we already have quite a lot to do even though it doesn't fit into Gsoc Cheers,

Daniel Foré
elementaryos.org

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> This thread is starting to look and sound like just a massive distraction. We already have quite a lot of very important things to do. I think one of the most important of which is get AppCenter to a shippable state.
> New things are cool and fun and exciting, but if we really have the extra time and resources I think we should be focusing on making sure what we already have is the best it can be.
> * There is still no search in Files
> * We just picked up Photos which needs a lot of work to bring its UI into alignment with our other apps
> * judging by the popularity of indicator synapse, we should probably investigate using libsynapse to improve the results in Slingshot
> * We need to fix deprecation warnings involving granite and gtk
> * Pantheon Online Accounts needs to be integrated into our default apps
> * Indicators are holding us back from Pantheon running on other platforms and frankly their designs aren't the best they could be.
> * Audience could use its UI re-written in GTK (instead of raw Cairo) now that we have things like overlay and revealer and can use custom CSS
> I mean there are literally a couple thousand bug reports open right now.
> Cheers,
> Daniel Foré
> elementaryos.org
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Pepijn de Vos <pepijndevos@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> This tread is just the best way of finding software I need :)
>> Would be cool if they where more easily discoverable though.
>> This was a good start: 
>> http://www.elementaryupdate.com/2013/08/top-things-to-do-after-installing-luna.html
>> Elementary's new motto: There's a PPA for that!
>> But... what's wrong with just using Dropbox or UbuntuOne?
>> I am aware that Preview does SOME things, but I never looked closely.
>> So much Mac stealing going on here :D
>> OS X is good, but not everything that's good is OS X.
>> Pepijn
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Nikos Vasilakis <nikos.ailo@xxxxxxxxx> 
>> wrote:
>>> Also, we have something similar, I believe: 
>>> https://github.com/kjlaw89/draw
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Tristan Petersen <tristang4@xxxxxx> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>  Pepijn,
>>>> 
>>>>  Are you familiar with the annotations feature of Mac OS X Preview 
>>>> app? It does essentially what you describe. I use it all the time to 
>>>> quickly annotate screenshots or pdfs.
>>>> 
>>>>  Regards,
>>>>  Tristan
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>  On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:41, Pepijn de Vos <pepijndevos@xxxxxxxxx> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Another random idea, that is not a ripoff of OS X is... MS Paint!
>>>>>  Something to annotate screenshots or draw a quick schematic.
>>>>>  For real photo editing there is gimp, but something light to 
>>>>> quickly draw and annotate is missing even from OS X.
>>>>> 
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