On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:57:32 -0800, "Matt Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Hubert Chathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm looking at applying for Google's SOC this year. I'm interested >> in looking at GNU/Linux desktop integration issues. So I'd like to >> look at: - the window focusing issues, and making GNUstep work well >> in all window managers > I think this is a good idea, though I am wondering the scope of your > intent, e.g. to make gnustep usable with sloppy focus, or to fix > issues with click-to-focus, or both > i think these are separate issues so maybe you could elaborate a bit. I'm not sure exactly what the issues are, or how much work is involved in solving them. I just saw the issue listed on the wiki, and I remember reading some discussion about it on the bugs mailing list. >> - looking at which freedesktop.org standards it would make sense for >> GNUstep to implement >> - looking at providing bindings/interfaces for some freedesktop.org >> software (e.g. dbus is mentioned on the wiki) >> - although not exactly desktop-integration work, I could also look at >> bitmap image reading/writing support >> >> Does this sound like a worthwhile project? What scope would be >> reasonable for GSOC? Are there other things I should be looking at? >> > as far as other things > one more idea is finishing up the update to the latest xdnd > specification, and filling in the missing conversions so we can drag > and drop between gnustep and X apps Right, xdnd. I knew there was a big thing that I was forgetting something when I wrote the email. Yes, that's another thing that I would be interested in working on. > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/XDND > Fred can probably elaborate more on what is done and needs to be done > with this though. -- Hubert Chathi - Email/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev