[Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

[Dave Crossland]

Hi

On 15 May 2016 at 12:43, Eli Heuer <eliheuer at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think a weekly Google Hangouts on Air is a great Idea! Monday works for
> me, I'm looking forward to it.
>
> My responses to dave's questions:
>
> > How have you found the experience so far?
>
> Wonderful! I'm new to free-software having primarily worked in the video
> game industry previously. Being new, I've had to do lots of work/reading to
> ramp up, but I feel like the learning that is happening is invaluable and
> I'm looking forward to seeking out other free-software projects to work on
> after this.
>

:D


> > What did you like?
>
> I'm very interested in learning more about how font editors are built so I
> couldn't be more excited about this project. I'm looking forward to testing
> the software and designing some fun fonts with it!
>

:D


> > What do you think can be done differently going forwards?
>
> I'd like it if we had a more concrete idea of what we are building, my
> hope is that next week we can work on this (more mocks and critique, so we
> can hit the ground running at the end of the bonding period).
>

I agree, I sketched on paper some more mock ideas and will post them this
week; however, I think since we have SOME mocks already, but ZERO font
editor widgets, it would be good to focus the last week of community
bonding on writing some 'training wheels' font editor widget code (like a
widget for listing and then browsing a UFO's glyphs and metadata) so that
we are more familiar with how PyGTK3 works, before circling back to the UX
and finalising the milestones.


> I'm going to be very adamant that the UX is fun and easy to use.
>

How do you think we can measure both 'fun' and 'easy to use'?

Let's make a measure and then take measurements throughout the summer :)


> Also, personally I want to do a better job sharing thoughts and ideas and
> asking more questions.
>

I suggest we use the blog for this, so that the font editor comes XO bundle
comes with the materially relevant history of its development :)


> I like the format of dave's three questions, I'll do my best to post these
> daily.
> 1. what we did today
> 2. what we'll do tomorrow
> 3. any questions for the team
>

Great! :D


> 1. I'm at the wiki gardening meeting going through as much of the wiki as
> I can and learning about the culture/people of SugarLabs. I also learning
> more about Jekyll and wiki editing workflow.
>
> 2. I want to keep working on learning how to make GTK mockups for sugar,
> this is going a little slow for me but I'm getting there.
>
> 3.  Why will the font editor be fun to use and/or am I wrong to think it
> should be fun?!
>

I think the editor will be fun if allows instant gratification, something
you mentioned that KidPix was designed to have; I think this means having a
default pre-loaded "template" font, so users can start tweaking it.
http://glyphrstudio.com/online is like this with the examples tab; for us
that should be the default rather than 3rd tab :)

I also think it means having a stroke tool, similar to the one demo'd in
the www.metapolator.com homepage (video demo at
https://www.youtube.com/LlvO4n6vd-U :)

-- 
Cheers
Dave
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