Archive for June, 2008

Improving the shared whiteboard

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

With Beta 11 of PeerAware the shared whiteboard became much more visually pleasing, and with the latest theming and icon upgrades the usability of PeerAware is improving rapidly. Focus for the next couple of weeks will be to add support for linking objects together in the whiteboard, to enable drawing diagrams with smart connections. This has been a weak spot in the current implementation. Also expect to see more export functionality, something quite a few people have requested so far.

The problem as always is time of course, so now it is back to coding instead of writing on the blog.

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New graphics

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

A lot of effort has gone into upgrading the user interface of PeerAware, and among the improvements a new set of smilies and user icons have been created. The user icons are based on work by Juliane Krug, and the smilies are based on Nicolas Gaglianis work. All of the svgs are taken from the openclipart library where the base drawings have been put into the public domain.

The SVGs used as source for the new icons in peeraware.

I use Inkscape for all my graphics needs both in PeerAware and on the web-site. It is a great editor for drawing, and for each new version it has improved both usability and feature-set.

The new user interface of PeerAware is both simpler and more esthetically pleasing. Still a lot can be improved for even better usability, and I will just continue updating both the UI and functionality. I hope you will enjoy what will come over the next months.

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