Difference between revisions of "Ideas for Google Summer of Code/Desktop GUI"
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The point of this project is to create a desktop GUI that works with any of the pairs that you can use through the terminal, and that offers at least the features of [[apertium-html-tools]]. We want users to be able to just click an icon, and have an app come up with a UI similar to https://apertium.org (at least as user-friendly). Document translation should be included (currently turned off on apertium.org). |
The point of this project is to create a desktop GUI that works with any of the pairs that you can use through the terminal, and that offers at least the features of [[apertium-html-tools]]. We want users to be able to just click an icon, and have an app come up with a UI similar to https://apertium.org (at least as user-friendly). Document translation should be included (currently turned off on apertium.org). |
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The backend should probably use a locally running apertium-apy (since |
The backend should probably use a locally running apertium-apy (since this already handles pipeline management quite well), starting it up |
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this already handles pipeline management quite well), starting it up |
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along with the app and shutting it down when the app exits. |
along with the app and shutting it down when the app exits. |
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==Features and tasks== |
==Features and tasks== |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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* [[Interfaces]] |
* [[Interfaces]] |
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* http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Category:Using_Apertium |
* http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Category:Using_Apertium |
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[[Category:Ideas for Google Summer of Code|Desktop GUI]] |
[[Category:Ideas for Google Summer of Code|Desktop GUI]] |
Revision as of 09:28, 16 February 2015
We have several User interfaces, but many of them are either unmaintained, or only work on Android, or require a net connection, or only work with pairs that use only Java-ported modules, or require a lot of terminal work to set up.
The point of this project is to create a desktop GUI that works with any of the pairs that you can use through the terminal, and that offers at least the features of apertium-html-tools. We want users to be able to just click an icon, and have an app come up with a UI similar to https://apertium.org (at least as user-friendly). Document translation should be included (currently turned off on apertium.org).
The backend should probably use a locally running apertium-apy (since this already handles pipeline management quite well), starting it up along with the app and shutting it down when the app exits.
Features and tasks
- Should "just work" for the user
- Work with package-installed as well as self-compiled pairs
- Handle startup and management of apertium-apy
- We might need some minor enhancements to apy, to ensure not too many pipelines are running at once and using up all the RAM
- Nice and functional GUI :)
- Translate-as-you-type
- Document translation
- including .po gettext files
- possibly other formats that aren't in the standard Format handling list?
- Spelling (could just use locally installed myspell/enchant here) on both input and output
- Possibly a button to do OCR if tesseract is installed (low priority)
Coding challenge
- Install apy and some language pair(s), and make a simple desktop GUI with an in-box and and out-box, which translates as you type using the server on localhost.
Frequently asked questions
- none yet, ask us something! :)