My Google Summer of Code Application

[Steven Brown <steven w j brown gmail com>]

Ravi Kumar wrote:
> On which SOC u r in>?

I applied to GNOME.  My application was called "Intelligent Desktop" and 
it would focus on solving the icon-overflow problem and experiment with 
offering dynamic views of the desktop and actions to perform on it, such 
as "showing all images."  These would be on a desktop-sidebar (I called 
it the DAW or Desktop Action Window).  Basically, I want to try and 
enhance the usefulness of the desktop and experiment with various UI stuff.

I don't have the actual application any place public, but I was asked 
for some mockups and I have those available if anyone wants to take a look.

http://www.stevenbrown.ca/soc_sup/index.html

All comments and suggestions welcome... especially on whether this could 
be implemented externally to Nautilus.  I would prefer tight integration 
w/Nautilus, and I don't want to rewrite everything it already does.  I 
looked at the extension API and it looks insufficient.  Any thoughts?

If I get accepted (that would be really cool!) I'll announce plans more 
formally.  For now, I'm still finishing up school....  >.<

Steve