On 5/4/06, Nicolas Roard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/5/06, Rolando Abarca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Rolando -- welcome to etoile :)
> I'm a CS student and have a solid C and Operating Systems base. I
> coded a few small things in ObjC when I had a mac, but nothing
> serious...
> I've been subscribed to the etoile-dev list for a while now, and due
> to some circumstances I have some free time. I've never worked in a
> free software project before (only small patches), and I see the
> etoile-project as something I would love to work on.
> Anyway... I saw some sort of a "to-do" list a few days ago here in the
> list (when talking about Google's Summer of Code), although I know
> etoile is not part of the SoC project, I'm willing to work on one of
> those topics. So... where should I start?
There's surely a number of things to work on :-D
CoreObject is imho really interesting, but quentin is in charge of it,
so he'll tell you better than me if you can help him at this stage of
the implementation (as he's working on a separate branch).
Something that would be really cool too would be to work on the file
manager -- plenty of interesting things here too, although it's likely
a complex first project :)
So If you want to start with smaller projects -- perhaps a good idea
at first -- an obvious choice would be to work on BookmarkKit or
IconKit -- it should be pretty simple/fast to finish their
implementation and they'll give you a good taste of Objective-C
development imho.
Other ideas welcolmed !
Cheers,
I would suggest you to work on applications rather than frameworks
simply because the result is more visible.
Maybe you can look at PoppleKit and Vindaloo
(http://home.gna.org/gsimageapps/).
They are not part of Etoile, but is pretty useful.
Popple library is in C++, and PoppleKit use C to wrap Popple library.
Since GCC 4.1 is out, Objective-C++ is available.
Another one is menu server in Etoile.
To me, it is the first step to have a Etoile desktop environment.
Some components like tab shelf and dock are also useful.
But since menu server is already in the SVN,
it may be easier to start.
If you are interested to write a dock for Etoile,
I can help you on xwindow side.
But we need a discussion about the user interface first.
Have fun.
Yen-Ju
--
Nicolas Roard
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