What next? (I want you to participate)

domingo septiembre 11, 2005 | Java Swing | Permalink | Comentarios [9]

I want you to participate. I think I'm done with the SwingWorker entries, so I will post a summary during this week to condensate all recommendations (and some third-party interesting links too). So I'm thinking on what to do next. And I want you to participate. I don't have too much spare time to do open source, but I am thinking of spending a little bit of time on a new one. Since we are in the Participation Age I thought it could be a good idea to share my ideas with you so that you can influence me. And I want you to participate. Please. Do me that favour. At the moment these are my suggestions: Build "BeanInfo" for all those beans at the JDNC Swingx project. That way we will be able to use Swingx components in our preferred GUI builder (mine is NetBeans, I assume Eclipse's VE will accept third-party external JavaBeans too). I need to talk to JDNC people in advance to verify nobody is working on it, so that there's no duplication of effort. Build some sort of little "Task Manager" to visually appreciate all those running SwingWorkers in the background, otherwise invisible. Something similar to the "Download Manager" window of Mozilla or Firefox, that shows all running (or finished or cancelled) operations and their progress. Build a little application that reads graphics files (PNG, JPG and the like) and is able to do some simple transformations on those, using Java2D. I need something like that so that my father (that runs Linux) doesn't have to fight GIMP 2.2 (which is really unusable). So, what do you think? Which of the above is your preferred one? Have you any other cool idea you could suggest? I want you to participate! Please send me an email or write a comment with your preferences and or suggestions. I will greatly appreciate those. Thanks in advance, Antonio