1. Ease

1.0.1. Painless presentations for the GNOME desktop

Beautiful logo comes here, contributions welcomed!

1.0.1.1. Goal

Ease is a presentation authoring tool for the GNOME desktop. It aims to be a clean, simple yet powerful program that allows you to create elegant, good-looking presentations and throw away OO.org Impress/PowerPoint.

1.0.1.2. Feature/TODO list

Ease allows you to :

• create/open/save presentations ;
• add text/image/video/links to your content ;
• easily manipulate those : scale, move, rotate, flip, etc... ;
• easily add some shadow/outline/glow to your content ;
• add nice (not ugly planet-flying-away) transitions : fade in/out, panel, slide, etc... ;
• export to PDF/PNG(/AVI?) ;
• use cool pre-defined themes ;
• fetch online free-of-charge stock images ;
• playback your presentation smoothly, with presenter tips such as spotlight, focus, chronometer, etc...

1.0.1.3. Progress

The project is still quite young. It was started by Nate Stedman as a project for the RCOS in May 2010. A summer of code student, Stéphane Maniaci, joined the project that same summer. We're both working very hard to make the features listed above happen.

1.0.1.4. Milestones

Currently in development: Ease 0.1

1.0.1.5. Development

Ease is developed in Vala, with GTK+ for the graphical parts, and the Clutter toolkit for the animation.

1.0.1.5.1. Code

The code is hosted on the GNOME Git repository.

You can clone it with git clone git://git.gnome.org/ease.

1.0.1.5.2. Bugs

You can report a new bug in our Bugzilla bugtracker.