Right now Lucruri is a toy/prototype project for:

 * Vala
 * CouchDB, DesktopCouchDB
 * general UI usability.
 * Launchpad

Vala study
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Lucruri is a research project for testing the feasibility of Vala as a development platform for desktop applications.

It is also used for testing the CouchDB and DesktopCouchDB bindings for Vala

CouchDB and DesktopCouch
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Lucruri is using DesktopCouch for storing it's tasks and notes. It is one of the first applications using couchdb-glib and desktopcouchdb-glib.

It is used for shaping and testing the API for couchdb-glib and desktopcouch-glib.

Usability study
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In the same time, I'm using this project to learn more about GTK and play with usability and user experience aspect of desktop applications.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of UX goals for this project
 * the application should follow GNOME Human Interface Guidelines
 * all actions should be available using a single type of "click" (useful for touch screens.
 * no dialogs when you delete an item, they are just removed
 * All actions should be recoverable, you have to option to recover them.
 * All actions should be automatically saved (items, configurations)
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Launchpad testing
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I'm using Lucruri to test the Launchpad as supporting platform for software development. Especially I'm testing the Code, PPA, Bugs and Translations.