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[Nikos Vasilakis <nikos.ailo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Did we apply, eventually?

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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