KDEEdu/Artikulate/Todo

Bugs

• https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?product=Artikulate

Tasks for Release 0.3

Review Issues

• exclude Units without recordings
• after downloading GHNS course, ask learner if it shall be added to favorite languages
• set default qt-multimedia recording source (e.g. "alsa:default"), currently only updated once the config dialog was opened
• due to gstreamer <-> pulseaudio deadlock problem, suggest using QTMULTIMEDIA
• show graph when clicking "finish training"
• user icon should be adjustable (male/female/arbitrary image)
• course resources: update resources at GHNS

Release Goals

• Handbook:
  • document editor
  • update handbook that currently no statistics are stored
• count required learner recordings for statistics, instead of clicks on "Retry Later"
• revisit interaction design
  • training interactions
  • overview screen (previously called start/home screen)
• use learner profiles
  • profile based "last learned language"
  • save statistics
• switch to QtGStreamer as main recording backend
• provide at least two language courses
• complete user documentation
  • explain overview page
  • explain training page
  • explain statistics page
• use Leitner box learning for training
• system wide course installation (aka class mode)
• test with different color schemes
• port to kqmlgraphplugin
  • update to QtGStreamer 1.0 (once released)
  • upstream padding property for graphs
  • upstream axis description property
• minor UI todos
  • training page
    • add scrollbars for long texts (not fitting into bubble): https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/114627/
    • use font settings from configuration dialog
    • add background for progress bar phrase information
  • overview page
    • give info if no course/units are available in language
• handle corrupt course XML files gracefully in editor
• use language names/translations from kdelibs

Unspecified Target ToDos

General User Interface

Course Editor

• broken layout for phrases with several text lines
• when scrolled down, cannot open phrase for edit
• enable the user to add new course skeletons
• kvtml file export
• optionally use Simon recording backend

Trainer

• soundwave diagrams / visual comparison

Core

• set input volume (change at config dialog has no effect currently)
• port XML parsing to Xmlstream

Release Steps

1. write release notes
2. create tarballs and upload them
3. notify sysadmins
4. add links to community wiki page
5. write notification mail