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Google's Summer of Code 2006 Opens with KDE

Posted by Jonathan Riddell on Monday 01/May/2006, @15:01
from the summer-time dept.
Google's Summer of Code has opened for student applications, and KDE is again seeking students to mentor over the holidays. Our ideas page lists some of the projects you could work on, or you are encouraged to come up with your own. Last year we had 24 students working on KDE projects, one of the highest numbers of any project and gained important projects like Okular. For more information see the student FAQ and participant signup page. Update: be quick, the deadline is midnight UTC ending next Monday 8th May.

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quality
by gerd on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @06:15

All these project proposal sound like something which will get done anyway. Why not something kool, I mean

Integration stuff:
* kpdf plugin for Firefox
* KControl module for Wine
* KDe dialogues in GTK apps
* VBA implementation (cmp. OpenOffice)
* Tutorial for KDE programming with Python
* KDE Java backends
* QT rendering for Firefox
* Windows data integration for dual-booters (MyMusic, MyFiles)
* bibtex engine for KWord
* latex2odf converter
* dictionary tool with wiktionary integration

* Usage Talkback compiles (applications which report and analyse how they are used)
* Podcast "production" tool
* Torrent-based Podcasting
* Screen recording
* vcard tool
* KDE Membership and finance management tool for associations
* usability in KDE security
* KDE user database / user map (cmp. gnome and debian developer map)
* webbased translation tool
* KDE presenter templates
* KDE R Frontend
* Knights extentions and integration
* uxtheme conversion tool

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What about fonts? by cb on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @07:34

Re: What about fonts? by Lee on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @08:51

Re: What about fonts? by boemer on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @09:23
Re: What about fonts? by Evan "JabberWokky" E. on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @21:52

Re: What about fonts? by Luciano on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @02:14

Re: What about fonts? by Daniel "Suslik" D. on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @08:54
Re: What about fonts? by Meneer Dik on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @12:58

Re: What about fonts? by Flavio on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @05:16
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Re: What about fonts? by Carewolf on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @08:07

Re: What about fonts? by ac on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @14:41

Re: What about fonts? by humhum on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @13:54

Re: What about fonts? by James Richard Tyrer on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @17:17

Re: What about fonts? by Moyogo on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @10:21

Re: What about fonts? by puter on Thursday 26/Jul/2007, @20:20

Re: quality by ac on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @08:46
Re: quality by Lee on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @08:54

Re: quality by humhum on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @13:55

Re: quality by Thiago Macieira on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @14:00

Re: quality by Mineri Devangu on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @15:13

Re: quality by Marco K on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @15:50

Re: quality by Jui Kai on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @19:43

Re: quality by EY on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @20:03

There is a R Qt/KDE frontend by Luca Beltrame on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @23:40
Re: quality by Gerd on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @04:51

Re: quality by Alex Lowe on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @17:00

Re: quality by ibc on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @00:37
Re: quality by ibc on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @00:37
Re: quality by Morty on Thursday 04/May/2006, @02:24

Re: quality by JA on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @17:34
Re: quality by Cyrille Berger on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @02:28

Re: quality by Dhraakellian on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @14:16
Re: stuff by James Richard Tyrer on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @17:36

Re: stuff by Thiago Macieira on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @05:52

Re: quality by Carlo on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @14:28

What has become of last years projects?
by furanku on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @07:46

There are many interesting and cool projects are on last years list, full NX integration, speech recognition, oKular, VoIP and Video Conference support for Kontact, ... But since last years SoC ended I never heard of these projects anymore.

What happend to them?

It looks like a general problem with these Summer of Code projects. Most of them remain in that state the student left them forever.

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Re: What has become of last years projects? by MamiyaOtaru on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @18:00
Re: What has become of last years projects? by Thiago Macieira on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @05:54
Re: What has become of last years projects? by John Tapsell on Friday 05/May/2006, @01:35

Things I would love to see.
by Robert de Gaulle on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @13:57

1.) True autocompletion support for Python in KDevelop.
2.) True WYSIWYG print output, particularly with respect to fonts. (If you don't believe me, do some serious looking in Bugzilla; and you will see the complaints.)
3.) More DCOP interfaces.
4.) Font DPI parity between GNOME and KDE. (Why is it that the same fonts, at supposedly the same size, render differently in KDE and GNOME. Gtk+/GNOME applications can look terrible when started in KDE without gnome-settings-daemon?)
5.) Full Esperanto localization. ;-)

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Re: Things I would love to see. by adymo on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @16:08

Re: Things I would love to see. by Richard Dale on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @01:51

Re: Things I would love to see. by Carewolf on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @17:05

Re: Things I would love to see. by Robert de Gaulle on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @19:46

Re: Things I would love to see. by Thiago Macieira on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @06:00

My suggestions
by Gonzalo on Tuesday 02/May/2006, @18:13

0) The Twinkle SIP client is already pretty incredible, but it needs some usability love. Work on it so that it can become the standard VoIP client on KDE. Improve its Kontact integration and extend the range of SIP services included in its setup wizard. Eventually, all KDE users and developers should be able to call each other out of the box for free when they install KDE. This would do wonders for KDE project collaboration and closeness among the KDE community.

1) Further extend the OpenDocument support in all KOffice applications. KDE 1.5's support is a good beginning, but its rendering and use of documents produced by openoffice is still far from seamless. Feature-wise, Koffice is already very impressive.

2) Work on the stability of Koffice. Assign somebody to do ongoing unit testing and bug squatting in kword, kpresenter and kspread.

3) A professional citation and bibliography management application that integrates with Kword. Tellico already has some bibliography management functionality, but Tellico is a general collection management application and in trying to be all things to all people doesn't do the bibliography management as well as it could. We could call it "Kcite".

4) Improve the multimedia features of Digikam. The current pki filters are cumbersome and have never worked properly for me.

5) Kpilot/Opensync functionality. This shit needs to just work. Send a student 10 or 15 pdas and make sure that he cannot leave his room until they all work seamlessly with Kontact.

6) Better tested integration of Kontact and the groupware suites, particularly egroupware. Egroupware has remained as one of the top-5 projects in sourceforge for quite some time and has one of the most impressive and easiest to deploy applications, but kontact's support for it is clunky and buggy.

7) Location-based awareness for all applications. Create location-based configurations for all applications. When I am home and I switch to my home AP, my default printer should switch to the right one as should my network-mounted shares and so forth.

8) Some further work-flow and usability love for Kontact. For instance, Kontact's naming of its own features is far too technical for everyday users. Many people often don't realize what great features lay hidden behind many KDE applications because their naming simply baffles them. I write this as a linguist and translator. I realize that Google may be more interested in hiring developers than people of my training, but a software application is a lot more than just its code. With the increased awareness that the KDE4 efforts are having about interface design, maybe opening one slot or two for graphic artists and translators would be a good thing to do for the SOC positions.

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Re: My suggestions by Adriaan de Groot on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @02:09

Re: My suggestions by Gonzalo on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @05:38

SharePortal for KDE and unison KIO
by Charles de Miramon on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @02:08

If we want to compete with Microsoft, we must have better tools for user friendly collaborative work.

Adding a wiki component in the Kollab stack tailored for knowledge workers which integrates well with KOffice and Kontact. For example using the shared Kollab addressbook, this wiki would creates pages for every employee of your team where you could easily drag and drop Kword files, save from KWord into a special page of the wiki.

Unison is a nice application that I use everyday to synchronize my notebook and my main computer. The command line interface is geeky and the gtk frontend clumsy. Adding synchronization in the heart of KDE with a kio slave, a kcontrol module and a framework for reconciliation of files would be nice.

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Re: SharePortal for KDE and unison KIO by JVz on Friday 05/May/2006, @22:15

libwv3?
by yaac on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @06:11

How about doing something that will *really* make a difference?

Rip out the OOO code that imports MS formats, and also code that saves those internal structures to ODF.

Can't trash liwv2 fast enough.

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Re: libwv3? by ac on Wednesday 03/May/2006, @07:25
Re: libwv3? by me on Thursday 04/May/2006, @03:30

Re: libwv3? by yaac on Thursday 04/May/2006, @10:41

Re: libwv3? by Boudewijn Rempt on Thursday 04/May/2006, @10:48

Re: libwv3? by yaac on Thursday 04/May/2006, @12:16
Re: libwv3? by blacksheep on Saturday 06/May/2006, @10:58

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