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GNOME in Google Summer of Code 2007

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2007-03-15 17:08. GNOME
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GNOME is participating in Summer of Code 2007. If you are a student and you want to apply, you can submit your project before March 24th. You can find some ideas for projects on our wiki.

For further information about the GNOME participation in Google Summer of Code 2007, go to:

  www.gnome.org/projects/soc

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I'm not sure about some of

Submitted by guillaume radde on Mon, 2007-03-19 09:14.

I'm not sure about some of the ideas that are proposed here. Encrypted notes for tomboy.....is that really a priority? I was using evernote at work and tried tomboy quickly. In evernote you can select a piece of a webpage from firefox, drag and drop it into your notes, and it creates a note with a link to the web page where it came from. That was my favorite feature and I don't think tomboy implements it.
And what about porting the amsn webcam plugin to gaim? Users have been asking for that for years now...Well, maybe that should be more in the gaim ideas...
I love the idea of the integration of the searchbox into the gtk file chooser :-).

code ideas

Submitted by rutulian on Fri, 2007-03-16 09:47.

Some of these are pretty good ideas, but some also seem pretty terrible and/or not so much a priority in terms of desktop usability.

*Intelligent Main Menu
This is the worst idea on the list. If you want to reorganize menus, do something along the lines of the way Microsoft did with the Office ribbon (*gasp*). Adaptive menus are an extreme annoyance, at least the way they are implemented in Windows.

*Integrate desktop search engines into GtkFileChooser
*Brave new X11 world
These two are really good and will go a long way towards improving desktop usability.

*Coding the next version of art.gnome.org
This seems kind of useless. I agree the website could use some work, but why devote limited resources to that when there are still a lot of other things that need to be done with the desktop itself.

*Improve integration of Zeroconf technology into GNOME
This seems like a must for me, although it is a fairly large project in scope. If it can be broken down into smaller chunks, this seems like a much better use of resources than website redesign, or a gtk interface for Bugzilla.

agree

Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Fri, 2007-03-16 11:02.

i totally agree with you on integration of desktop search (i'd prefere tracker over beagle, as it doesn't require mono) and on integrating ahavi into the desktop or possibly gtk.
for example zeroconf discovering of network printers to list them in the gtkprintdialog would be very nice and it would not limit this feature to the gnome desktop but would also allow using it in other environments like xfce, which i use ;)