Marble/MeeGo: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 10:59, 20 November 2011

Developed by Daniel Marth during Google Summer of Code 2011. User interface ideas (under development): On startup a "home screen" is shown that lines up a couple of possible activities. Each activity is represented by its name and an icon, aligned in a grid. Selecting any activity brings the user to the main screen. The main screen adjusts itself to the chosen activity and provides a way to go back to the home screen and related activities. Most activities display a map (MarbleWidget) as the main widget, but that's not always the case (e.g. during configuration).

Activities

Planned activities are as follows:

Virtual Globe
- Activates spherical projection, a satellite map.
- Easy way to switch to other map themes.
- Easy way to enable wikipedia and photo plugin.
- Distance measuring should be possible.
Routing
- route planning for motorcar, bike, pedestrian
- OSM map, merkator projection.
- Related activities: Guidance
Guidance
- Voice guidance during a journey.
- Precedence: Known route.
- OSM map, merkator projection.
- Related activities: Drive, Cycle, Walk
Search
- Textual search for cities, addresses, POIs, ...
- Easy way to enable wikipedia and photo plugin
- Related activities: Bookmarks, Around Me
Bookmarks
- Access to the bookmarks
- Related activities: Search, Around Me
Around Me
- Activates merkator projection, OSM map, GPS.
- Searches for POIs and displays them. Search area: Around GPS position if known, current viewport otherwise
- Optional category filtering.
- Easy way to enable wikipedia and photo plugin
- Related activities: Search, Bookmarks
Weather
- Activates spherical projection, a satellite map and the weather plugin
Tracking
- Activates merkator projection, OSM map, GPS
- GPS track is automatically recorded.
Geocaching
- Activates merkator projection and OSM map
- Activates GPS and the opencaching plugin.
- Easy way to enable wikipedia and photo plugin
- Related activities: Biking, Walking
Friends
- Activates the open desktop plugin (needs to be extended: at least login and).
- Possibly other future plugins (e.g. google latitude)
Download
- Download of map tiles, offline maps, voice guidance speakers etc for offline usage
Configuration
- Tweak various settings

Roadmap

Marble Touch for MeeGo 1.3, to be released with KDE 4.8. Supported activities are

Virtual Globe
Search
Routing
Tracking
Weather
Friends
Space View

The following features will be missing in the very first release 1.3.0:

Bookmark access (general)
Legend display
Download of offline maps, speakers
Guidance mode

Timeline

Releases will be aligned with the KDE release schedule. Minor releases will be feature releases, however. The missing features from above will be added gradually in these releases.

2012-01-25: Marble Touch 1.3.0
2012-03-06: Marble Touch 1.3.1
2012-04-03: Marble Touch 1.3.2
2012-05-01: Marble Touch 1.3.3
2012-06-05: Marble Touch 1.3.4

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 Supported activities are
 * Virtual Globe
+* Search
 * Routing
-* Search
+* Tracking
 * Weather
-* Tracking
 * Friends
+* Space View
-The following features will be missing in this release:
+The following features will be missing in the very first release 1.3.0:
 * Bookmark access (general)
 * Legend display
@@ Line 64: / Line 65: @@
 * Guidance mode
-Marble Touch for MeeGo 1.4, to be released with KDE 4.9 or earlier (not aligned with KDE releases). Features of 1.3 plus the missing features from above.
+=== Timeline ===
+Releases will be aligned with the [[Schedules/KDE4/4.8_Release_Schedule|KDE release schedule]]. Minor releases will be feature releases, however. The missing features from above will be added gradually in these releases.
+* 2012-01-25: Marble Touch 1.3.0
+* 2012-03-06: Marble Touch 1.3.1
+* 2012-04-03: Marble Touch 1.3.2
+* 2012-05-01: Marble Touch 1.3.3
+* 2012-06-05: Marble Touch 1.3.4