Hi! Here is my first progress report. I've been mostly working on understanding gtk and designing some more details about my project. Here is my code branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~slagvi/inkscape/templates I also attach a gui project I made. In fact most of the code responsible for displaying data is already written but if something is not like it should be, please tell me as soon as it's possible. And here is some explanation.
I decided to use tags/keywords instead of categories, as it has been suggested by some of you. But there aren't to many keywords or templates, so all the keywords will be displayed in a list. Clicking on one of them makes appropriate templates to be displayed. Of course one template can be tagged by many keywords. Some of you were talking about previous mockups ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/NewFromTemplateSpec) flaws. So I tried to make the interface as simple as possible. All the additional data (like long description, translations, used keywords, license etc) are hidden, as most of users won't need them in the everyday use. It will be displayed after "more info" clicking. What is not in this image, is a short description of the template and its preview. I'm still not sure if preview is a good idea. In most cases it will be just a blank, white page of different sizes... Short description will be added.
Procedural templates will have the two first columns the same, the third will be completely different but i will start thinking about it after static templates are ready.
Please, tell me if its correct, so I could make it work on real templates. I would also like to ask for a wiki account, as it would be better to update all the templates specification via wiki page, so they would be visible for everybody, all the time.
Jan Darowski, Slagvi
