Re: [GSoC] Reduce flicker project

From: Andrei Sfrent <andreisfrent_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat Mar 26 2011 - 11:02:47 CET

Hello!

> There are two components to the reduce flicker project I think. The
> first would be fix to fix the drawing selection code so that
> characters stop "dancing" by one pixel during selections. Uwog has a
> lot of code for that already but it needs to be finished and polished.
> After that is done, I think it would be worth looking at reducing
> flicker.

That's perfect!

> Speaking personally I would rather have the flicker and dancing
> character projects completed rather than the large documents, since I
> rarely work with documents of greater than 50 pages in a word
> processor. However as I said to Robin, Open Source coding is mostly
> about going with your passion since what we'd really like are long
> term contributors who'll continue to be part of the community after
> GSoC is over.

I would really like to work on the "Reduce flicker"; I have some
experience with GTK drawing and that's why I have chosen this
project in the first place.

> That will only happen if you find what you're doing intimately fun and
> interesting. So choose the project that most appeals to you. The ideas
> are what we have come up with. If there are other things you'd like to
> fix or implement, propose them to us.
>
> I'll post a collection of useful bugs for students to practice on shortly.

That would be great!

Thank you,
Andrei
Received on Sat Mar 26 11:02:53 2011

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