GSoC 2011 Ideas

List ideas for prospective Google Summer of Code 2011 projects here...

scribus-dev mailling list

=Real table support=
 * Skills required: C++, Qt4 knowledge
 * Scribus lacks real table support. Currently if one wants to have a table he will need to make it in external application and paste it as PS.
 * Tables need to become a new kind of object (aside from image and text objects).
 * 1)  Scribus should do the layouting, including ensuring row height is big enough to provide enough room for the text, the same for columns (plus text wrapping and/or eliding). A possibility for table to flow over several pages should be available.
 * 2)  Scribus should allow importing data from CSV [and other sorts of data] easily (like specifying delimiter, " symbol handling -- see how openoffice.org it does).
 * 3)  Easy way to navigate through the cells, and doing table-wide formatting (of all features, text, lines, background...) are much needed.
 * Completing at least first item of this list will count as a success for the project.

=Ideas from Louis D=
 * 1) First line indent must be available in the PP (and everything that's available in the Styles must be in the PP too)
 * 2) PP and Styles sorted out (see above)
 * 3) Undo/Redo.
 * 4) Filters to clean-up text at Get Text.
 * 5) Style Manager (If it was me, I would start from scratch. Just a suggestion. The bugtracker is full of nice ideas about the SM)
 * 6) Improve Hyphenation Settings (this could also be discussed with many of the apps using text, right?) — include a hyphenation exception list (from a text file, not like it is now — remember, too many clicks...)
 * 7) Allow thin space in Short Words (or by any other automated way): a must in French typography and a blocking issue for pros.
 * 8) Make the text runaround image easier than the actual way (text again)
 * 9) Clean-up the UI so we have less clics and overall a much smoother workspace.
 * 10) Add whatever we miss in the interactive PDF (this is a very powerful tool)
 * 11) Make the Render Frame work on OS X (if it does, make it work for everyone, it never worked for me on any machine)
 * 12) Add export to PDF/X-1a (de facto standard in Norh America)

=Project 1=
 * Introduction
 * Rationale
 * Deliverables
 * 1) Part
 * 2) Part
 * Time scale
 * Skills required


 * Summary