Re: Google Summer of Code ideas needed

2013-03-15 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Tom Stellard wrote: > Hi, > > It's time again for Google Summer of Code, so we need to start > updating the X.Org ideas page > (http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas) with new ideas. Since there > have been a few issues with the wikis lately, if you have any ide

Re: Google Summer of Code ideas needed

2013-03-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
While I'm okay including it under the umbrella of an X.Org/Freedesktop.org Summer of Code application if the current maintainers are okay with that, I'm not sure the problem described is something that would take a student 12 weeks of full time work to solve. Perhaps if it included writing a full

Re: Google Summer of Code ideas needed

2013-03-14 Thread Michal Srb
Hi, I am not sure if it fits under programs related to X: fontconfig - problem: The way data are stored and/or searched is currently very inefficient. With many fonts and fontconfig rules installed in system, the libfontconfig slows down start of every graphical program. A quick test on my cur

Re: Google Summer of Code ideas needed

2013-03-13 Thread Yuri
On 03/13/2013 19:08, mengyu@cn.alps.com wrote: > > Thank you for your information. > I'm not sure if Microsoft driver support user-define gesture. It just > say it can config behavier of a > pre-defined gesture. User-define gesture should be more useful and > interesting to users. They can > us

Re: Google Summer of Code ideas needed

2013-03-13 Thread mengyu . xia
xorg-devel-bounces+mengyu.xia=cn.alps@lists.x.org 件名 Re: Google Summer of Code ideas needed On 03/13/2013 18:07, mengyu@cn.alps.com wrote: I got an idea. Add custom gesture recognition to touchpad and touchscreen driver module Difficulty: Medium Skills Required: C Description:

Re: Google Summer of Code ideas needed

2013-03-13 Thread Yuri
On 03/13/2013 18:07, mengyu@cn.alps.com wrote: I got an idea. Add custom gesture recognition to touchpad and touchscreen driver module Difficulty: Medium Skills Required: C Description: This project can allow user to create custom gesture for special function, like turn off notebook, start

Re: Google Summer of Code ideas needed

2013-03-13 Thread mengyu . xia
GUI for user to config and input the gesture, and add the recognition code to synaptics module or a new created module. Thanks, Xia Tom Stellard 送信者: xorg-devel-bounces+mengyu.xia=cn.alps@lists.x.org 2013/03/14 01:07 宛先 xorg-de...@lists.freedesktop.org cc 件名 Google Summer of Code

Re: Google Summer of Code ideas needed

2013-03-13 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Tom Stellard wrote: > Hi, > > It's time again for Google Summer of Code, so we need to start > updating the X.Org ideas page > (http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas) with new ideas. Since there > have been a few issues with the wikis lately, if you have any ide

Google Summer of Code ideas needed

2013-03-13 Thread Tom Stellard
Hi, It's time again for Google Summer of Code, so we need to start updating the X.Org ideas page (http://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas) with new ideas. Since there have been a few issues with the wikis lately, if you have any ideas please respond to this thread, and I will make sure they get o