Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-20 Thread Pepijn de Vos
I'll repeat this as I'm also guilty of not reply-all'ing (reply-to header anyone?) It would be a huge help to have bugs labeled as easy and/or having a mentor available. See Mozilla for an example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction I looked at the issue tracker for

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-20 Thread Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff
2014-02-20 17:18 GMT+04:00 Pepijn de Vos pepijnde...@gmail.com: It would be a huge help to have bugs labeled as easy and/or having a mentor available. See Mozilla for an example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Introduction Actually, we at least used to have something similar - the

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-19 Thread Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff
2014-02-19 18:32 GMT+04:00 Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff ser...@elementaryos.org: Finally, we have Contractor; we used to have .contract file format documentation in the old website but it's now gone. The Granite wrapper API is *sort of* documented in the Granite valadoc, but the version in the

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-19 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
This is a good point, and it is a universal challenge (in both open source and proprietary projects). It needs effort. But there must be correlation between successful projects and well-documented ones: If actively try to lower the barrier one needs to overcome to start working with elementary

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-18 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Nikos Vasilakis nikos.a...@gmail.com wrote: I believe you wanted to reply to all (which I do). I agree. In general, I believe that our contribution guidelines are broken. For coders in particular, heading to the developer section of the website has a light

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-18 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
I believe you wanted to reply to all (which I do). I agree. In general, I believe that our contribution guidelines are broken. For coders in particular, heading to the developer section of the website has a light introduction to vala, but says nothing on how to actually contribute to elementary

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-18 Thread Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff
We're missing a ton of other docs in the website too, but you know how it goes - writing docs is boring and everybody has better things to do. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Did we apply, eventually? On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Daniel Foré dan...@elementaryos.org wrote: To be clear, what I'm saying is maybe we shouldn't be trying to make up stuff to do just to participate in Gsoc when we already have quite a lot to do even though it doesn't fit into Gsoc

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread David Gomes
We decided *not* to apply given that we need to give higher focus to stabilizing our current projects and not just writing a bunch of new ones. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Nikos Vasilakis nikos.a...@gmail.comwrote: Did we apply, eventually? On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Daniel Foré

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-15 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Thanks, David. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David Gomes da...@elementaryos.org wrote: We decided not to apply given that we need to give higher focus to stabilizing our current projects and not just writing a bunch of new ones. On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Nikos Vasilakis

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Pepijn de Vos
What I think the OP suggested Contractor for, and what shell scripting does not provide is an API to GUI applications. In AppleScript you could move windows around, show pages in Safari, add events to iCal, play songs in iTunes. I implemented things like a tiling WM, a script to open links in

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Tristan Petersen
Pepijn, Are you familiar with the annotations feature of Mac OS X Preview app? It does essentially what you describe. I use it all the time to quickly annotate screenshots or pdfs. Regards, Tristan On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:41, Pepijn de Vos pepijnde...@gmail.com wrote: Another random idea,

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Also, we have something similar, I believe: https://github.com/kjlaw89/draw On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Tristan Petersen trista...@me.com wrote: Pepijn, Are you familiar with the annotations feature of Mac OS X Preview app? It does essentially what you describe. I use it all the time to

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Pepijn de Vos
This tread is just the best way of finding software I need :) Would be cool if they where more easily discoverable though. This was a good start: http://www.elementaryupdate.com/2013/08/top-things-to-do-after-installing-luna.html Elementary's new motto: There's a PPA for that! But... what's

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Daniel Foré
This thread is starting to look and sound like just a massive distraction. We already have quite a lot of very important things to do. I think one of the most important of which is get AppCenter to a shippable state. New things are cool and fun and exciting, but if we really have the extra

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-14 Thread Daniel Foré
To be clear, what I'm saying is maybe we shouldn't be trying to make up stuff to do just to participate in Gsoc when we already have quite a lot to do even though it doesn't fit into Gsoc Cheers, Daniel Foré elementaryos.org On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Foré dan...@elementaryos.org

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Pepijn de Vos
A proper IRC client. I know Empathy does IRC, but it is unsuitable for real use. Try opening a few dozen channels in its tabbed interface. Try idling in a busy channel. All the real IRC clients either *are* a terminal app,  or look like terminal app in a GTK window. Compare some screens from

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Marco Benzi
I was thinking about a visual programming experience for the end user who might be unfamiliar with bash. Also, depending on implementation, the app could reach beyond the scope of elementary, becoming useful for other distros. Just my two cents. Cheers, Marco El 13-02-2014, a las 9:53,

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-13 Thread Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff
Well, there's a number of visual programming environments out there already and I can't see how this relates to elementary specifically. It's more of a project for the Raspberry Pi community. -- Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Nikos Vasilakis
Great application everyone, I made a number of textual refinements to the GSOC text, hopefully beneficial! Someone with edit capability could pull them in the text (if the GSOC-related people agree). I haven't gone through the ideas yet. I will try to do it tonight and work on a

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-12 Thread Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff
FYI we already have a time machine application, Cronopete. The interesting work items for it are 1) btrfs snapshots or even old copy-on-write versions of files outside of snapshots as storage medium, instead of a dedicated partition and 2) Integration into applications, much like for Contractor

Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas

2014-02-11 Thread Cameron Norman
The first one that comes to mind is presentation software (like Ease, but obviously more mature). Another idea that has been floating around in my mind is an elementary HIG'd audio session manager (check out Gladish, Claudia, Non Session Manager for an example of what this is) that would