Re: Google Summer of Code ideas

>
> Hi Martin,
>
> Those are good ideas to put up on a developers
> Wiki/page. Nice little projects to get people started
> on hacking Abi.
>

Good idea. I'll put them on the wiki and in my blog.

> A few other suggestions:
>
> 1) Implement a C API for some of AbiWord's more
> interesting internals.
> 1.1) Use SWIG + that C API to generate language
> bindings (Python, Perl, etc.)
>
> 2) Perhaps use 1/1.1 (or a custom plugin) to integrate
> Abi with DBUS. A first attempt might be to export all
> of Abi's EV_EditMethods over DBUS via a plugin.
>

Great ideas. I'll add them to the list.

Cheers

Martin

> Best,
> Dom
>
> --- msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>> Google are sponsoring Summer of Code
>> projects again over the
>> (Northern Hemisphere) summer break. I've heard that
>> some of our
>> developers are interested in in participating in
>> this with
>> AbiWord the community.
>>
>> Here are some ideas:
>>
>> 1. Integrate AbiWord with dashboard and beagle.
>>
>> Last year I wrote the AbiDash plugins which sends
>> clues and notifications
>> to the dashbaord program. Dashboard is a really
>> interesting project which
>> runs in the background in a spare piece of screen
>> real-estate. As
>> different programs gain focus they send "clue
>> packets" which describe what
>> the user is currently doing. Dashboard integrates
>> with the beagle search
>> engine and that the clues and performs searchs
>> through the beagle index.
>> It attempts to find relevent files and relevent
>> pieces of text that could
>> help the user with their current document.
>>
>> So for example, if a user is employing AbiWord to
>> write an essay on
>> Shakespear's Midsummer Night, the dashboard program
>> would search through
>> the users documents looking for both relevent
>> documents and relevent parts
>> of the documents to what is being typed and presents
>> the user with useful
>> information without the user having to do any
>> explicit searchs.
>>
>> Both dashbaord and beagle are written in mono. This
>> project may well make
>> a useful join project between the AbiWord, beagle
>> and mono communities.
>>
>> I personally hink that this is a very exciting
>> project that will take the
>> desktop experience to a whole new level of
>> productivity.
>>
>> 2. Help with the AbiCollab project.
>>
>> There is tons of work left to do here. If someone is
>> interested please us
>> know and we'll find a piece of the project that
>> would be suitable for a
>> SoC project.
>>
>> 3. Complete the PangoGraphics class.
>>
>> Lots of work left to do here. Tomas would have to be
>> available and willing
>> to sponsor and supervise a potential SoC project.
>>
>> 4. Implement a Cairo graphcis class.
>>
>> Cario is a next generation, platform independent,
>> 2-D dimension graphics
>> system. Cario offers sub-pixel text positioning and
>> a variety of other
>> tasty features. Implementing a cross platform
>> solution to our graphics
>> class would also reduce the effort of maintaining
>> our 3 different targets.
>>
>> 5. Come up with a UI suitable for the OLPC project.
>> The OLPC project is
>> aimed explicitly at children and the computer screen
>> are either 640x480 or
>> 800x600. Our current UI is not optimum for this
>> evironment. This project
>> would be to find a UI that works for OLPC.
>>
>> 6. Various enhancements to abiWord.
>>
>> 6.1 Implement "comments". This would resuse/extend
>> our current
>> footnote/endnote code to embed text within a
>> document. I could
>> supervise/mentor this.
>>
>> 6.2 Implement Repeating Table rows on different
>> pages. I could
>> supervise/mentor this.
>>
>> 6.3 Implement "previews" of document. The idea is to
>> display the first 1/2
>> or 1/3 of the first page of each document once the
>> user selects a document
>> in the file browser. I have a number of ideas on
>> how to do this. I could
>> supervise/mentor this.
>>
>> Of all these I'm most interested in getting "1"
>> going.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>
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Received on Sat Apr 22 12:44:34 2006