docs/vision.rst

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   2  Design Document: GNU MediaGoblin vision
   3 =========================================
   4
   5 .. Note::
   6
   7    When we get a wiki, this will get moved there.  It's here for now
   8    mostly because we didn't have a better place for it.
   9
  10 .. Note::
  11
  12    By the time you read this, it's very likely it'll be out of date.
  13
  14
  15 This document attempts to describe the envisioned workflow of GNU
  16 MediaGoblin, from a structural standpoint.  For now, *nothing* in this
  17 document is probably the eventual, final way that things will work.
  18 Eventually as things come to exist, this document will hopefully be
  19 refactored to describe how things *do* work.
  20
  21 This documented on hopes, dreams, rainbows, and unicorns.  And it will
  22 come to fulfillment through a lot of hard work.  Your hard work and my
  23 hard work.
  24
  25
  26 Look and feel
  27 =============
  28
  29 Default look and feel
  30 ---------------------
  31
  32 Mairin Duffy made mockups for something called Design Hub.  That
  33 project did a number of things differently than the way we intend to
  34 go, but it's probably a good idea to steal a good number of ideas from
  35 here.
  36
  37 http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/another-design-hub-mockup/
  38
  39
  40 User profile mockup
  41 -------------------
  42
  43 Here's an ascii art mockup on how things might look for a user's page::
  44
  45       _____
  46      |_( )_|   USER NAME
  47      |  |  |
  48      |_/_\_|
  49
  50         Recent artwork:
  51        ___________________       ___________________________
  52       |  ___   ___   ___  |     |_About_User_Name___________|
  53       | |pic| |pic| |pic| |     |                           |
  54       | |___| |___| |___| |     | Some sort of self-        |
  55       |  ___   ___   ___  |     | description probably goes |
  56     < | |pic| |pic| |pic| | >   | here                      |
  57       | |___| |___| |___| |     |                           |
  58       |  ___   ___   ___  |     |                           |
  59       | |pic| |pic| |pic| |     |                           |
  60       | |___| |___| |___| |     |                           |
  61       |___________________|     |___________________________|
  62
  63                                  ___________________________
  64         Recent favorites:       |_Recent_activity___________|
  65        ___________________      | New picture: DragonFace   |
  66       |  ___   ___   ___  |     |                4/2/2010   |
  67       | |pic| |pic| |pic| |     |---------------------------|
  68       | |___| |___| |___| |     | Sup yall this is some kind|
  69       |  ___   ___   ___  |     | of mini blogpost.  Maybe  |
  70     < | |pic| |pic| |pic| | >   | the interface will allow  |
  71       | |___| |___| |___| |     | for this?                 |
  72       |  ___   ___   ___  |     |___________________________|
  73       | |pic| |pic| |pic| |
  74       | |___| |___| |___| |      ___________________________
  75       |___________________|     |_External_comments_here____|
  76                                 | Dang!  This stuff rocks   |
  77                                 |          - Joe 4/2/2010   |
  78                                 |---------------------------|
  79                                 | Nice job on the dragon    |
  80                                 |         - Morgan 4/2/2010 |
  81                                 '---------------------------'
  82
  83 So there's this type of interface that puts a lot of different types
  84 of info on the same screen.  I'm not sure that I like it.  It's
  85 possible we'll go with something much more minimalist.  Maybe we'll go
  86 with something "tabbed" the way statusnet / http://identi.ca is on
  87 user pages.
  88
  89 It's possible that we could support multiple profile styles here,
  90 and you could load whatever profile style you want as set by user
  91 preferences?
  92
  93
  94 Uploading mockup
  95 ----------------
  96
  97 Here's an uploading mockup::
  98
  99      Upload an image
 100
 101      [ Title                                 ]
 102
 103      Upload: [                      ] [Browse]
 104       ___________________________________________
 105      |                                           |
 106      |                                           |
 107      |                   o0O                     |
 108      |                  o   '                    |
 109      |                   o_.'                    |
 110      |                                           |
 111      |             Uploading... OK               | <-,
 112      |              Resizing... OK               |   |
 113      |                                           | Area replaced w/ resized
 114      |                                           | image when done
 115      |___________________________________________|
 116               ________________
 117      License |_CC BY-SA_____|V|
 118       ___________________________________________
 119      | Description goes here.                    |
 120      | You can type it up in here and everything |
 121      | and it'll show up under the image.        |
 122      |                                           |
 123      | Possibly we should allow some kind of     |
 124      | markup... maybe markdown?                 |
 125      '___________________________________________'
 126
 127       __________________________________________
 128      |> Advanced                                |
 129       ------------------------------------------
 130
 131
 132 Customizability
 133 ---------------
 134
 135 General site theming customizability is pretty easy!  Since we're
 136 using `Jinja <http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/>`_ we can just set up
 137 user-overriding directories.
 138
 139 We'll also figure out some sort of way to provide theming "packages",
 140 eventually.
 141
 142