On Wed 27 April 2011 04:34:19 Rovin Bhandari wrote: > Hello! > > I have applied to Season of KDE 2011. I have a few ideas in mind regarding > the same. Let me brief them for you- > 1. *Adding indexing to KFind and/or KFileReplace.* > Adding indexing to these tools will not only make searching extremely fast > when dealing with several gigabytes of data but also make these tools "more > generic desktop search applications". To demonstrate the effectiveness of > indexed search over unindexed search, I have (with the help of a friend) > written a Python-SQLite3 based indexing cum searching application with > command-line-interface. Alhough I have not paid much attention to optimizing > my algorithm in the code, searching is drastically faster than unindexed > search via KFind. Plus indexing makes searching file-contents and meta-tags > feasible without taking any extra time. I can send the code (along with a > previously prepared index-database if required) if anyone would like to > review.
Why not work on a similar interface which uses the already existing file indexing service Strigi? > 2. *Developing a Direct Connect client for KDE, or vamping up 'valknut'.* > The new DC client should feature ADC protocol as well. It can be built over > the latest LinuxDC++. Plus, a friend recently came up with an idea of making > a DC client supporting SSH protocol. I don't know how relevant the idea is > but would surely like to have some opinion on it. > 3. *Extending features from Notepad++ to Kate.* > I have Googled a lot only to draw the conclusion that an equivalent to > Notepad++ does not exist for GNU/Linux. So I thought of extending some of > the best features of Notepad++ to Kate, the most useful (well, according to > me) of them being 'Automatic backing up' of opened files. I have been using > Kate for quite a while and have read some of its code too, so I am pretty > sure that the 'automatic backing up' feature can be incorporated in Kate. That was done as a SoC or SoK project last summer, iirc. The code is probably layign around waiting for that last 10% if it's not already in Kate. > I am ready to work on any of these projects if someone is willing to mentor > them. Also, I am open to suggestions and new ideas. > Kindly review my ideas and drop in a mail if they appeal to you. > > Looking forward to your reply. > > > Thanking you, > > Rovin Bhandari > Undergraduate student > Department of Computer Science and Engineering > Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati -- Ryan Rix == http://hackersramblings.wordpress.com | http://rix.si/ == == http://rix.si/page/contact/ if you need a word ==
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