Re: [Gaim-devel] Student Developer

[Eric P. <al...@gm...>]

i'm doing some research here and get caught up with the
gm_main_loop_run() calls in gnt_main() in libgnt/gntmain.c  i can't
find those funtions anywhere in all the source.  i'm guessing it's a
libgnt call of some sort.  it seems to be where the control is given
to the event manager where all the event are fired off from.  where
might i find documentation on how all that is setup?

On 3/14/07, Adil <ad...@ya...> wrote:
>
> --- 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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