GSoC Idea

[Chris Baines <cbaines8 gmail com>]

Hello,

I am a student currently at university in the UK. I am hoping to
participate in the Google Summer of Code this year, and have a
preliminary idea I would like to run by you.

The first is to add package management functionalities to the shell
interface (through an extension?), so that you would be able to
install and remove programs from the overview. I don't think this has
been done, the closest project I found was this one
https://code.launchpad.net/updateindicator . I talked to the developer
a while ago, and he seems to like the idea
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-August/msg00001.html
, so building the functionality from this extension might be a good
place to start. I also have some ideas about how this would work, but
I will keep it short for now. Is this something that sounds good?

Thanks,

Chris