New program ideas; submitted where?

[FoxIII]

I have an idea for a new-(ish) program which I think would be quite useful. Well, it would be to me anyhoo, but I don't know of any one place where I could set the idea out for other people to look at and perhaps get something begun in the production side.

Obviously it's something that I would love to do myself, but I'm only in my first year at college and I know that I don't have the sort of skills or knowledge to do the project myself.

I can put the idea here if anyone wishes, but if there IS a main place where all this goes, then I guess it would be better there. :)

[kilosan]

And also allow people to donate on that each program idea/request so someone will work it out.

[tdrusk]

Maybe Programming Talk (http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=39), but you're not going to get banned for posting it here.

So, what is your idea?

[Grant A.]

Also be sure to license your idea under the GFDL version 1.2 so that no companies can run off and take it, without proper source code showing.

[FoxIII]

Well, if it's okay here then...

Basically, what I'm after is a scrap book-esque program. A kde4 widget comes to mind. Where you can select areas of the screen that you want (like gimp's freehand selection tool) and then you can draw freehand for things such as arrows and then begin typing where you want rather than where you 'have to'. Basically, a notepad as you would have on your [physical] desk. That you do all your little jots and notes and diagrams and stuff at weird angles with arrows and stars and doodles and such.

I've found that there are programs out there that do some of it, and others that do other parts of it, but there needs to be something where you can do it all. And not anything that takes up masses amounts of memory. It's SO not needed nowadays! This IS linux after all :D

If there is a program already out there that can do all of this, then let me have the link with an image of what it can do and I'll be happy for, well, the rest of my life cos it's costing me a fortune in both notepads and space! (currently running into a total of 48 a5 notepads (and their not thin) ah!) Cheers :D

oh yeah, just seen Grant A. 's post. This ideas is SO GFDL (what's gfdl?) and GPL, etc, etc. All code totally should be available. I came up with the idea so that's what I say. :P lolol

[WaeV]

Yes, I much prefer a plethora of little programs that do one thing well to a suite with tools you'll never need.

I wouldn't use your program, but my sister might. She's into scrapbooking. Sounds like a good idea, anyways.

Post it here when you're done (or one of it's sister sites, I think there's a QT apps one as well as some others.)

http://www.gtk-apps.org/

[dannytatom]

This would be nifty with a touchscreen.

[tdrusk]

I found Scrapblog (http://www.scrapblog.com/) to be a great webapp.

This (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=157882) thread had some useful tips.