ValaCAT. Some design aspects (Part 2).

This is the second article I have write about some design aspects about ValaCAT application, the first one is here. I have started to write some code and you can see it in my GitHub repository.

These are some details I’m including into the new application. I’m really a newbie in most of this aspects so any kind of feedback is welcome.
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GSoC Gtranslator Redesign proposal

I have finished my GSoC proposal. I post it here so everybody can read it. GSoC Image
If somebody finds some spell mistake or you have any thoughts about it feel free to leave a comment. As you can understand I prefer to correct my mistakes before summit the proposal to the Google Melange system.

My project consists on redesigning Gtranslator the official GNOME application for translating.  The idea is make the design more extensible and write the implementation in Vala, a much more readable language than GObject. Here is my proposal:

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Re-writing/designing Gtranslator. Developing Plan

I’ve been working on a proposal for Google Summer of Code for the last three weeks. It consists on the rewriting of Gtranslator using Vala programming language. Gtranslator is the official Gnome .po file translation tool.

In spite of being the official application it’s quite buggy and it has an important lack of features if we compare it with other existent applications. In my opinion a rewriting in Vala, a much more friendly language than C with GObject, can help to increase the number of developers interested in the project.

The project mentor, Nicolás Satragno, has told me that defining a developing plan will be a great idea as a contribution to the project previous to the proposal submit. I have made this draft:

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