Re: [gnome-love] ideas for gnome ghop tasks

["natan yellin" <aantny gmail com>]

Hi everyone,
I had a few ideas for new tasks for ghop.

1. Add ability to zip files directly from nautilus. This should be a menu item and an option in the right click menu.

2. Add os x style dnd "spring" feature to nautilus. (Folders "spring" open if you move over them and wait for a few seconds while dragging.)

3. Bring the gtk tutorial up to date.

4. Add support to Nautilus for gnustep apps. (This was suggested in #gnome-hackers a while back.)

5. Write a new app that downloads photos from flickr and slideshows them in the background. Perhaps this could integrate with the online desktop.

6. Give a presentation in your community introducing gnome. (This was inspired by the pyhon task.)

7. Document four or five undocumented widgets in the gtk tutorial. 

Does anyone have any objections to a task along the lines of "add five new tasks..." I've seen these in several of the other projects, but I can understand why we might not want to do this one.

I understand that I wont be able to claim any of these tasks, but if someone could email me the relevant contacts for each of these, (e.g. the person who would have to approve each of these tasks and help out the student) then I don't mind writing them up.

Natan

On Dec 19, 2007 11:03 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:

On Dec 19, 2007 6:40 PM, Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> wrote:
> 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)

There's a bugzilla bug on this
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503806

It includes the framework to get everything to build and to install.
The manual just contains section headers. So somebody should still
write the manual as requested here.


Cheese has also has such a manual. So also their some GHOP love might
be appropriate


Jaap

> 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
>
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