On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:57:28AM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: > Thomas Adam <tho...@fvwm.org> writes: > > > All, > > > > Whilst I appreciate that organisations need not worry about this until the > > end of February, I'll be moving house then so I need to start thinking about > > this now, rather than later. > > > > Now that 2.6.0 is out, I'm proposing the following project (some of which > > are a continuation from previous GSoC proposals) -- none of which are listed > > in any order. > > Like all open source work, > the project should meet some need of the coder. > So, whoever does the work should have some input on what gets done. > > What do you think?
I think it's perfectly valid -- yes. But we (as an "organisation") need some suggestions for prospective GSoC candidates because there will be mentors needed to help with the proposed project -- i.e., someone a GSoC student can go to for questions. The project outlines as I gave them weren't my own project ideas but rather things we would need to do to allow for more interesting features. There's something for everyone to do, and one man's interest is another man's boredom. :) > I'd like to see the initial appearance issue get some attention. > > I'm working close to that area: > > Right now, I'm trying to understand xdg menus. > We make an entry in the FvwmMenu marked: > > D: Desktop > > It's pretty clear that should be "A: Applications". > I'm pretty sure there should be a "Preferences" and > "Settings" menu. This is touching on some default configuration then? > There are other related things that need attention. > For one, having 2 setups (Form and 95 Script) is not > a good thing. They should be unified and more function > should be added. Yes. > As far as more specific style matching, I haven't tried > the branch that contains the patch but isn't that mostly working? To an extent, but it doesn't apply cleanly and I wouldn't want to use it outright, given what I outlined earlier. > If we had a volunteer to do "drudge" work it would be nice > to move off docbook to something easier to use. I've mentioned this a few times, but see: https://github.com/ThomasAdam/fvwm/tree/ta/asciidoc And more importantly: http://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm-workers@fvwm.org/msg02596.html > I think Fvwm should packaging some kind of .Desktop file. > Wouldn't that get Fvwm into some kind of preferences menu so > a non-fvwm user could just select Fvwm? I offered to do this when speaking to downstream packagers. This varies slightly between distributions, so until I get something sent through I'm holding off for now. But yes, it would do what you said. -- Thomas Adam
