New base theme and Drupal desktop

Posted by Sharique on March 22, 2008 at 10:48am

Hi,
Pls ask questions that your in mind related to these ideas. I'm waiting for comments.

I have two ideas for this year of SoC.
1. New base theme
2. Drupal desktop or Drupal Sharp

New base theme : Garland is a really good theme. Garland theme not easy to customize. New theme should be very flexible, clean and fast. It would be better to have a additional featured region, which can be used to show something like special offer, newsflash, ..etc. New theme must work across all major browsers.
I know it would be difficult to make better theme than garland.
The theme should be xhtml 1.0 and css 2.1 ( if ur adventurous you can make it css 3.0) theme.
I have worked on various themes development projects for drupal site. So I have good experience for developing themes.
Required knowledge: CSS, HTML, PHP.
Deliverable: A drupal theme with mock file in psd or xcf (gimp) format.
Drupal desktop or Drupal Sharp :
The idea is to have a desktop application that let you administer your drupal site. There are two ways to do this things one as services module and another way is using xml-rpc protocol. I recommend to use Mono framework for development (Mono is open source .Net framework). Student can use GTK#, Qt (Qyoto) or Winforms. Make sure that it should run on Windows, Linux and Mac.
Why : writing an application in C# is much easier than most of the languages. Having a desktop application can make much easier for site admins to maintain site.
Why Mono: Mono is available on all major platforms (Win,Lin, Mac, Solaris and even Mobile(Maemo) )
Since Gtk# and Qyoto both are available for all three major platforms (Win,Lin, Mac), I don't think there should be any issue for that. Winform 2.0 Mono is also approaching its completion stage.
How it will work?
User will login with his site login. S/He will be able to track his past posts, view them, edit them, or submit new post.
Users with admin access can administer posts and users.
How it will work?
User will login with his site login. S/He will be able to track his past posts, view them, edit them, or submit new post.
Users with admin access can administer posts and users.
Deliverable:An application that should work out the box on Windows, linux and Mac.
Required knowledge: C#, .NET/MONO, either Gtk#,Qt/Qyoto or WinForms.

For both these project ideas I am available as mentor for both theme projects. I have applied for mentor. I hope this year we will have a very cool theme and a cool admin application for Drupal.
I run a small company, which provide open source related services, specially Drupal and mono.

Comments

please expand (and note existing modules)

Posted by greggles on March 22, 2008 at 11:21am

To make these into full proposals we'll need more details (I think).

Also, note that Drupal Manager (drupman) is an attempt at #2 from a previous summer of code and that it might be a better place to start/expand than a whole new system.

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some more ideas on #2

Posted by jbrauer on March 23, 2008 at 4:19am

It may also be worth looking at drush as a piece of #2. I know of a few efforts that are being batted around doing some things with AIR as the front end.

Also supporting OS X is a pretty key feature given the vast number of MacBook's at DrupalCon.

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Ideas from prospective student

Posted by narnigrin on March 23, 2008 at 8:46pm

If the community likes the idea (seeing as there were two SoC projects last year involving new themes), I propose to do #1. More specifically, I am thinking of the new theme as mainly a framework (à la Zen, so that an aspiring themer has something to "play" with) but with a number of customization options, eg. colour schemes using color.module, typeface settings from within the administration interface et cetera (perhaps with pre-set "modes", such as "Blog", "Webzine", "Business" etc, with different settings for font, colour and so on), so that the user who doesn't want to go dig even in the CSS also has a chance to change the look of the theme a little.

If anyone has any feedback on my idea, please tell me. Naturally, I want it to be really good before I submit it. :)

(I already stated my interest under another proposal (http://groups.drupal.org/node/9552#comment-31403), however this is more my area than that one.)