[MonoDevelop] Online Templates

[Lluis Sanchez Gual]

El dt 23 de 03 de 2010 a les 14:47 +0530, en/na Sanjoy Das va escriure:
> Hi!
> 
> I was actually thinking of working on this project for my GSoC. I
> already have a rough draft of my proposal which I've attached. Would be
> great if you could take some time out and give me a suggestion or two.
> Did not paste it inline because all the line breaks were screwing up.
> 

I basically agree with what Michael said. Also, reading the proposal, it
is not clear how the user will select the templates.

An online repository of templates will have a big number of templates
(especially if we allow users to submit their own templates), so it
makes no sense to show those templates in the New Project/File dialog. I
think a more useful approach would be the following:

      * The user subscribes to an online template repo by entering the
        url in a configuration dialog.
      * The New Project dialog shows the templates which are installed
        locally. There is a "More" button.
      * When clicking on the More button, MD shows a template browser,
        which can be used to select one or several templates among all
        the templates of the subscribed repositories.
      * After selecting, the template is downloaded and installed
        locally.
      * From now on, the selected template is shown in the New Project
        dialog, as a local template (but it could have a small overlay
        icon meaning that the template was downloaded). Also, when
        selecting a template there should be the option somewhere to
        delete that template from local system.

Lluis.