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TikiWidget

Target: TikiWiki 4.0


Preamble

TikiWidget is a cross-platform project targetted to be written in Java that provides a low-resource desktop interface to TikiWiki Watches, assignments, and the file gallery. The goal is to provide instantaneous desktop alerts in the event that resources on a user's system prevents them from having an email and/or web browser loaded. TikiWidget will alert the user when a watch or assignment is triggered, and give them basic information within the application on the circumstances for the alert, and give the user the option of going to the web page via their browser to address it. The project is still in its planning stages, but it is expected that in the least, it will use XML-RPC for a lot of the back-end communication with the website, with some information possibly coming via http.

The TikiWidget Project

The TikiWidget Project is being organized by Mike Kerr (kerrnel22). It is an open source project planned to be licensed under LGPL3. At some point it may make sense for this to somehow get bundled in with TikiWiki, but for the meantime, it is a standalone support project.

In order for the project to work as intended, some shoring-up of the TikiWiki XML-RPC code and minor tweaking on how watches and such behave will need to be addressed. As some coding will need to be done, full integration is not planned until TikiWiki 4.0. In the interim, it is proposed that once the TikiWidget application has the GUI to a certain point, and basic interfacing is working with TikiWiki, then a new development branch will be forked off of the main trunk.

Work on interfacing between Wiki and Widget will continue in this branch, with merges from trunk coming in to keep on pace with normal Tiki development. Once testing has completed, it should be fairly simple to merge the development branch back in with the main trunk in anticipation of 4.0 release in fall 2009.

Looking for Programmers

My (kerrnel22) personal skills are with Perl and PHP. I have picked up some Java along the way, but not nearly enough to complete this project on my own. Development of the project is being done with Java SDK 6 with NetBeans IDE. I have nearly finished the initial design of the GUI and will shortly be putting that up on Sourceforge. We will be using SVN as the version control system. Most of the underlying systems and tools for this project, to include licensing, have been based off of those used for TikiWiki, moreso for consistency than anything, but in some cases for compatibility.

If you are interested in participating in this project, even if you don't know a lot of Java but want to work on the php-side with the TikiWiki branch, please send me an email, post in one of the forums from the project page on Sourceforge, add a comment to this page, or add your name at the bottom of this page.

Keywords

The following is a list of keywords that should serve as hubs for navigation within the Tiki development and should correspond to documentation keywords.

Each feature in Tiki has a wiki page which regroups all the bugs, requests for enhancements, etc. It is somewhat a form of wiki-based project management. You can also express your interest in a feature by adding it to your profile. You can also try out the Dynamic filter.

Accessibility (WAI & 508)
Accounting
Administration
Ajax
Articles & Submissions
Backlinks
Banner
Batch
BigBlueButton audio/video/chat/screensharing
Blog
Bookmark
Browser Compatibility
Calendar
Category
Chat
Comment
Communication Center
Consistency
Contacts Address book
Contact us
Content template
Contribution
Cookie
Copyright
Credits
Custom Home (and Group Home Page)
Database MySQL - MyISAM
Database MySQL - InnoDB
Date and Time
Debugger Console
Diagram
Directory (of hyperlinks)
Documentation link from Tiki to doc.tiki.org (Help System)
Docs
DogFood
Draw -superseded by Diagram
Dynamic Content
Preferences
Dynamic Variable
External Authentication
FAQ
Featured links
Feeds (RSS)
File Gallery
Forum
Friendship Network (Community)
Gantt
Group
Groupmail
Help
History
Hotword
HTML Page
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Image Gallery
Import-Export
Install
Integrator
Interoperability
Inter-User Messages
InterTiki
jQuery
Kaltura video management
Kanban
Karma
Live Support
Logs (system & action)
Lost edit protection
Mail-in
Map
Menu
Meta Tag
Missing features
Visual Mapping
Mobile
Mods
Modules
MultiTiki
MyTiki
Newsletter
Notepad
OS independence (Non-Linux, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD)
Organic Groups (Self-managed Teams)
Packages
Payment
PDF
Performance Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
Permission
Poll
Profiles
Quiz
Rating
Realname
Report
Revision Approval
Scheduler
Score
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Search
Security
Semantic links
Share
Shopping Cart
Shoutbox
Site Identity
Slideshow
Smarty Template
Social Networking
Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Spellcheck
Spreadsheet
Staging and Approval
Stats
Survey
Syntax Highlighter (Codemirror)
Tablesorter
Tags
Task
Tell a Friend
Terms and Conditions
Theme
TikiTests
Federated Timesheets
Token Access
Toolbar (Quicktags)
Tours
Trackers
TRIM
User Administration
User Files
User Menu
Watch
Webmail and Groupmail
WebServices
Wiki History, page rename, etc
Wiki plugins extends basic syntax
Wiki syntax text area, parser, etc
Wiki structure (book and table of content)
Workspace and perspectives
WYSIWTSN
WYSIWYCA
WYSIWYG
XMLRPC
XMPP




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