Re: [Gaim-devel] Student Developer

[Adil <ad...@ya...>]

--- Eric Polino <al...@gm...> wrote:

> My name is Eric Polino and I'm a Computer Science/Math student who is
> planning on participating in Google's Summer of Code.  I have been
> using Gaim for years and really like what it has to offer.  I have
> recently started using Gaim-text and saw that it has come a long way
> and has a lot of features implemented, but is still a long way from
> completion...whatever "completion" means.  I was wondering if we could
> work together a list of projects I could work on over the summer.  I
> have some experience with curses and some experience with chatting
> applications.  None of which are on the scale of Gaim-text, but still,
> they aren't completely foreign ideas to me.
> 
> So anyways, if someone could let me know what's up that'd be great, or
> where I could go for more direction.  Google's SOC applications are
> due in 11days.
> 

Hi. There are a few things that I think would be good additions to
gaim-text (and libgnt: the widget toolkit used):

* A new window manager (or improvements to the existing ones). For
example, a tiling window manager would be super awesome.

* Improve the widget-packing in a container (GntBox), may be even have a
grid like container.

* Implement plugin-pref-ui using the request-api.

* Have python (or some other) bindings for libgnt. This would allow
creating functional/useful dbus clients with gnt ui.

* Add some more items in the buddy-list menu. Copy the gstreamer,
auto-reconnection etc. code from gtk-gaim into gaim-text.

* Have a spell checker, which would add some way of indicating spelling
errors, suggesting possible corrections etc.

There could be some other more interesting features you could think of.
These are a few that comes to my mind. It excites me that you are willing
to contribute to gaim-text. An SOC project would be a very good way of
getting started.

Note: Some of the ideas I mentioned are semi-trivial. So you may want to
bundle a number of them for an SOC application. :)

Sadrul

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