[gnome-love] ideas for gnome ghop tasks

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

So, Behdad asked for more ideas to keep those students busy...

Here are some, with some annotations from irc discussion with Owen and
Behdad:

1. Write a help document for vinagre 
   (affected module: vinagre)

2. Make gnome-screenshot capture the pointer image 
   (affected module: gnome-utils)

   This one needs good step-by-step instructions, pointing to the
   functions you use to get the pointer image, locate the pointer
   position, etc

3. Add a background-per-workspace option in the appearance capplet
   (affected modules: control-center, nautilus, eel, gnome-desktop,...)

   This one is quite possibly too big; it touches multiple modules. 

4. Move the keybinding preference from from tomboy to the
   keybinding capplet   
   (affected module: tomboy)

   This is bug 410760, Bastien said he can write/monitor this one.

5. Move the keybinding preference from from beagle-search-tool to the 
   keybinding capplet   
   (affected module: beagle)

   This is bug 410759, Bastien said he can write/monitor this one.

6. Move the keybinding preference from from deskbar-applet to the 
   keybinding capplet
   (affected module: deskbar-applet)

   This is bug 413538, Bastien said he can write/monitor this one.

7. Make the invest applet work on vertical panels, and make it handle
   panel configuration changes properly.
   (affected module: gnome-applets)

   This one should probably be written/monitored by Vincent...

8. Reinstate the "locate pointer" feature and add a configurable 
   keybinding for it instead of hardcoding "Ctrl".
   (affected module: control-center) 

   This is bug 480457. Bastian is willing to support this one, too.
   Details: "...you could add it to the multimedia keys backend, 
   nick the effect from the old code, add a schema, integrate in g-s-d"

9. Add some compositing effect for tooltips (e.g fade in)
   (affected module: gtk+)

   Owens comment on this one was: just have them do a prototype, not a
   full implementation; needs good guidance). I'd be willing to write
   this one up.

10. Measure icon cache effectiveness (ie how often do we render svgs or
scale because a size is missing), desktop-wide
   (affected module: gtk+)

   I'd be willing to write this one up.

11. (follow-up to 10). Add support to gtk-update-icon-cache to
optionally scale icons to missing sizes or prerender svgs.
  (affected module: gtk+)

  Owens comment on this one was: too big/hard. I'd be willing to write
  it up anyway, if you think that is ok.


Regards, Matthias