Vazaar Project Blog

After a long weekend coding and trying new design ideas finally I think I got a nice GUI. At least for the StartHere module:

There are still too much glitches in the GUI but I’m trying to fix them as I go. But for now, I feel satisfied. Queries against the model are working as expected.

After clicking in any stats button you get a nice visual for your resources. In next commits, you will be able of choosing one the two kinds of views: ListViews and IconViews. By default, the IconView is preferred.

More ideas are coming like content filtering, properties tagcloud, timeline widget, etc…

At this moment, you can only add new resources by copy&paste operations. An improved dialog for this operation is in the way. Resources can be selected for be deleted. If the selected resource is a collection, all resources which belong to this collection will be deleted. There is no actions popup menu yet but it’s planned.

I’m thinking if a Trash resource is worth. NEPOMUK brings especial classes for this cuestion. I need check twice these. Anyway, it wouldn’t be very difficult.

One of the most important things now is to code common operation for resources: tagging, annotations, relations between them and how to display their content. For example, display text or an image is easy to do but it is not very easy to display websites content. There is not a good browser widget ready to use in PyGTK yet. I put my hope in webkit bindings for Python.