Looking for GSoC 2020 mentor

[Marco Martin]

in general the idea is nice..
tough a concern is that the theme switching is a quite expensive operation
and quite abrupt and not gradual..
it may interrupt the work of the user in an unexpected way when the switch
is done

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 11:14 AM Nghĩa Nguyễn Hồ Hữu <nhhnghia at apcs.vn>
wrote:

> Dear Plasma developers,
>
>
> I am a student who wants to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2020
> program. Currrently, I have an idea of my own, so I want to discuss with a
> mentor to validate that my idea is worthy for the program. After discussing
> with valerie on the #kde-soc channel on freenode, I was instructed to use
> this mailing list as a way to contact possible mentors.
>
> My idea is that I want to integrate a set-and-forget module for automatic
> look-and-feel themes changing corresponding to the time in the day. For
> example, if it is after 6pm, the module will change the theme to a
> user-chosen dark theme. The closest resemblance application I know that
> have the same functionalities is AutomaThemely (
> https://github.com/C2N14/AutomaThemely). However, AutomaThemely still has
> some problems (eg., only automatically switching at login).
>
> If you think this is a good idea and are willing to mentor me in GSoC
> 2020, please reply to this email ASAP. I am looking forward to hearing from
> you soon.
>
>
> Yours sincerly,
>
> Huu-Nghia H. Nguyen
> *Ho Chi Minh University of Science*
> Undergraduate
> E // nhhnghia at apcs.vn
> P // 0908 112 552
>
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