--- layout: wip title: GUI UX coding (3 months) author: dsc date: 17 April, 2019 amount: 282 milestones: - name: 1st month funds: 33% (94 XMR) done: 22 August 2019 status: finished - name: 2nd month funds: 33% (94 XMR) done: status: unfinished - name: 3rd month funds: 33% (94 XMR) done: status: unfinished payouts: - date: 22 August 2019 amount: 94 XMR - date: amount: - date: amount: --- # What 32 hours a week for 3 months. [My last proposal](https://forum.getmonero.org/9/work-in-progress/90931/full-time-gui-coding) was the first where I was able to dedicate fulltime attention to Monero. Thus, past 3 months has seen substantial improvements to the GUI. For example, all points from [this issue](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/issues/1568) have been resolved or at least improved upon. # Who I'm dsc, familiar with Monero GUI internals and contributed to the GUI codebase since fall 2017. My contributions/experience: - https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/commits?author=xmrdsc - https://github.com/xmrdsc/py-levin/commits?author=xmrdsc (autonode.xmr.pm) - https://github.com/wownero/wownero-funding-system/commits?author=xmrdsc - https://github.com/wownero/Wownero-Light-Wallet/commits?author=xmrdsc - https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/qml-xmr/commits?author=xmrdsc - https://github.com/monero-ecosystem/moneriote-python/commits?author=xmrdsc (moneroworld) - Free VPS Hosting for XMR i2p workgroup, Noncense Research Lab and a Gitea [backup git](https://git.xmr.pm) instance. - The fan-favourite & glorious IRC bot `xmr-pr` - making everyones life more managable # Report on the previous 3 months - [Introduced white theme](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pull/2060) - [New wizards](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pull/1909), both code and design rewritten from scratch - [Simple mode](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pull/1909): automatic remote node finder (autonode.xmr.pm) - [IPC](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pull/2029) (`monero://` and `moneroseed://` uri handler) - Introduced font-awesome + .svg for higher quality icons - [New transaction history page](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pull/2025) - Wrote a 'GUI development guidelines' document (not released yet :-P) In addition I 'cleaned up' QML components and reviewed/rewrote existing QML/js logic. Good QML components lead to a more stable/clean UX. This is time consuming, as QML is not intuitive or easy to work with (compared to, say, HTML + CSS). These efforts are a balance between "needing to clean up the codebase before we can continue" versus "delivering tangible results the community benefits from". # Proposal 32 hours per week at 50 USD/hour rate for a total of 282 XMR. XMR/USD rate is roughly based on the average of the past 2 weeks. I'd rather not post bi-weekly updates in this PR/Reddit, rather wish to have a weekly meeting on Tuesday in `#monero-gui` on Freenode. This will be an opportunity where the GUI workgroup discusses recent developments, open issues/PRs, and to-do's. # What I want to focus on Or rather, what I could choose to focus on. Following list is unordered in terms of prioritization. ### Tor/i2p integration Due to knaccc/jgrassie's efforts (et al.), Monero now has support for tor/i2p. GUI should implement this. Challenges ahead: 1. Come up with a design that works in terms of UX 1. How to present tor/i2p options to the user? 2. Where can the user switch between connection types? 2. tiny-i2p/tor binaries will not be included in the GUI release, how to deal with this? ## Android/Purism Purism has shown interest in having Monero GUI natively and included by default on their Librem 5 (phone). This idea has overlap with a long standing wish of having an Android GUI release, as both would require [a new QML application](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/issues/2026). Time estimates for both Android/librem support would most likely result in at least 50% of this CCS's time allocation. As such, I'm not commiting to this task before the community prioritizes this goal and/or someone wants to partially fund this mobile adventure :-o) ## Support database pruning [More info here](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/issues/2087). ## Fix update checker GUI has functionality to check if a newer version of the GUI is available, via DNS. I believe this was disabled some time ago. We should get this functionality working. ## Rewrite modals and popups Current GUI popups can be improved. Kneuffeulbund [made new designs](https://i.imgur.com/ERxMW0S.png) I'd like to implement. ## Monerod as a service on Linux/MacOS The ability to register/create a `monerod` service from within the GUI, and add it to system startup using systemd (linux), LaunchAgent (MacOS) + system tray. For Windows, such registration should take place in rbrunner's installer. I will not work on a Windows service. This should also support [Automatic mining](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/issues/2046). ## User testing session GUI feedback Take user feedback from [an IRL GUI testing session](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/issues/2040) and implement them. ## Integrate the Monero GUI guide Integrate the Monero GUI guide from the translations workgroup inside the GUI, using a markdown to HTML renderer, inside QML, using QtWebView. ## Tooltips, context menus Right-click->copy/paste would be nice to have for input boxes. Also help tooltips. ## moneroseed:// Support for `moneroseed://` URIs. [More info here](https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/issues/2023). ## CMake build recipe A CMake recipe, replacing qmake, will be a requirement to create reproducible builds. Currently I'm experimenting with one, it may be finished soon. Might also not be. Would like to work with TheCharlatan on this. ## Misc. GUI development - Manage issue tracker - Bugfixes - Improving QML components where fit - Code review PRs