Re: GSOC 2008 advice

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

On 26/02/2008, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:

* menu/run-dialog: Windows and KDE4 both have search and MRU deeply
integrated into how users find and run applications, and it makes them
simultaneously easier and more powerful to use. These features have
been prototyped but not deployed into mainline GNOME, via deskbar[4]
and Novell's 'slab'/gnome-main-menu. Diving into those projects,
figuring out what prevents them from being mainlined, and working on
those rough edges may be worthwhile. (May not be worthwhile; the big
problem for deskbar may be python rather than anything that can be
solved on the gnome side, and g-m-m seems to lack a webpage, so I have
no idea what the status of that project is.)

I am working on xesam-glib which at some point in the future would make a solid corner stone in a "pervasive deskbar" technology for Gnome. I sent a very rough outline of my ideas to the deskbar list in January[1]. If any body else is moving in this direction please let me know (and possibly the deskbar list too).

My progress is slow because I only have little time to devote to Xesam and xesam-glib, but the pieces are slowly coming together.

Cheers,
Mikkel

[1]: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/deskbar-applet-list/2008-January/msg00011.html