Ideas for Student Projects

[Philip Rodrigues]

> Anyway, the good news is that the Austrian computer society has a contest
> for Open source projects:
>     http://www.ocg.at/ak/osp/contest/index.html
> The (high school or university) students are supposed to work on projects
> (~2 Months) that are not necessarily restricted to coding. In fact, other
> activities (UI design, graphics, documentation, etc.) are explicitly
> encouraged and allowed as a project, too.
> 
> Now, I'm looking for some KDE project ideas that I can propose for that
> contest. The students are supposed to choose one of the proposed projects
> (or they can propose their own ones, of course).
> If you heave any idea for such a project (e.g.  clean up the whole UI of
> some application, implement some great plugin, etc.), please tell me.

One thing that might be interesting would be to investigate improvements to
khelpcenter for KDE 4. The primary thing to do would be to improve the
search functionality. It currently uses htdig, and as far as I can tell,
basically doesn't work. Strigi looks like a good contender to replace it,
but I haven't had a chance to investigate it further. Also, I have a
nearly-working method of generating PDF versions of the docs, which make
for nice printable versions - this would need to be included in khelpcenter
somewhere. The third thing I can think of would be to look at how external
(ie, non-KDE) documentation is accessed from khelpcenter, and see if that
can be extended/improved.

Regards,
Philip
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