GSOC ideas

[Shaun Reich]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:04 AM, todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have some suggestions about possible GSOC projects that fit with
> this year's theme of "polishing existing things".  These may not all
> be good project suggestions, they are just ideas:
>
> 1. Make dolphin laptop-friendly.  Many laptops lack middle mouse
> buttons, and middle mouse button emulation is somewhat finicky.  The
> purpose of this project would be to go through dolphin and make sure
> everything that currently requires a middle mouse click can be used in
> an alternative way, such as putting it in the right-click menu.  For
> example, you can't open places in tabs without a middle mouse button.
> If this is too small, it could be part of a more general project to
> make the various parts of dolphin have consistent menus, mouse button
> interaction, and drag-and-drop interaction.
>

sounds more like code-in material or junior job than gsoc..


>
> 2. Improve the grouped view.  After the switch to dolphin 2, dolphin
> still does not have the ability to select entire groups in group view.
>  It also has never had the ability to collapse groups, which was
> planned.  There also may be some room for graphical improvements in
> the grouped view.
>

sounds too small to be a thing in and of itself.


>
> 3. Places panel revamp.  This was recently discussed on the mailing
> list, and may be the right size for a GSOC project.  This project may
> involve first figuring out how exactly the places panel should be
> revamped, or it could be that devs figure that out first and include
> that in the suggestion.
>

depends on what needs to be changed, but the gsoc should then entail
changing kdelibs and everything that uses that to do so.


-- 
Shaun Reich,
KDE Software Developer (kde.org)
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