Re: My Google Summer of Code Application

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

(Sorry to list mod, I keep using the wrong email. :P  )

The accepted applications will be announced April 11th, I believe.

Did you have any specific beautification in mind?


Ravi Kumar wrote:
> good to see that... was that acepted?
> Actually I had been dreaming to work on SOC, but when i checked it back, 
> I missed the deadline by 3 days, my gosh... now I will have to look for 
> next year...
> Anyway, I want to make some beautification in Gnome this year as m task. 
> But no one seems joining me... LOL
> w
>
> On 4/7/07, *Steven Brown* <steven w j brown gmail com 
> <mailto:steven w j brown gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     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
>
>
>
>
> --
> -=Ravi=-