Hi Darren,
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:03:47PM +0100, Darren Kenny wrote:
> John, a couple off the top of my head (and not necessarily something
> that's already in the Gaps document now), other people suggested these
> to me too, so I take no credit for them:
>
> * Development Environment
> o NetBeans
> + It seems that we in Sun are totally set on having
> Netbeans as our main development platform - that being
> the case , I would love to see a proper C/C++ editing
> environment in Netbeans 5. This would include the use
> of completion mechanisms (through pre-parsing of
> headers, etc) similar to the way Java development
> works - this isn't anything new and would be fantastic
> to have. Eclipse has some of this, but it's still not
> perfect, so there's opportunity there. And If we could
> include Glade integration into this for developing a
> UI we'd be a long way to having decent development
> environment for GNOME on Solaris, and other C/C++
> based projects... Also shouldn't forget debugger
> (dbx/gdb) integration... This would make Netbeans into
> an IDE to compete with Visual Studio...
I believe this is being worked on already by the Sun Studio team:
http://cnd.netbeans.org/
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen?entry=first_preview_of_netbeans_c
Thanks,
Dmitri
> + If glade integration seems to difficult, how about
> Matisse integration into GNOME...
> * Security
> o Encrypted Filesystems
> + There has been much fuss made about this recently on
> Linux - with the ability to support encrypted
> filesystems on removable devices. We have the
> technology in OpenSolaris to do this, and Darren
> Moffat has a page on it
>
> (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/xlofi/),
> so if we could get this integrated into the desktop
> (e.g. authentication UI, etc) then we would be have
> something of significant importantance.
> + A sub-project for this would be to look at PCFS (ie
> FAT/FAT32 filesystems) and how MS Windows and Linux
> are handling the encryption and making it work on
> OpenSolaris so we support the heterogeneous
> environment too.
> o Firewall editor
> + On OpenSolaris, we have the hidden feature of a built
> in firewall in the ipf kernel module and ipfilter
> command. Let's being this to the forefront and produce
> a UI for configuring it.
> o Service reduction (could also be performance, depends on how
> you look at it)
> + We have a lot of services running on Solaris (not
> quite so many on OpenSolaris now) but it's certain
> that many of these could be disabled by default and
> still have a usable desktop - some investigation into
> the creation of a desktop configuration for SMF would
> be good and would help speed up boot time as well.
> * Desktop Performance
> o File Monitoring
> + In OpenSolaris, there is a kernel API called File
> Event Mechanism. Unfortunately this still doesn't have
> a userland API that could be used by applications or
> libraries. Linux and AIX both have inotify to do this,
> but OpenSolaris doesn't. This would be an interesting
> project to get done and have libfam modified to
> support OpenSolaris using this mechanism rather than
> polling
>
> Thanks,
>
> Darren.
>
> John Rice wrote:
> >People,
> >
> >Jim Grisanzio has kicked this off as a general request for
> >participation from all the OpenSolaris projects:
> >http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7878&tstart=0
> >
> >Anyone any desktop related ideas that would be suitable?
> >
> >Easy:
> >Add Gnome Applet support as sample project in Netbeans - using Java
> >Gnome bindings.
> >
> >Medium:
> >Reduce memory consumption of Gtk+ hello world application.
> >
> >Hard:
> >Modify Firefox's tabbing behaviour to allow it to run with reduced
> >memory requirements, only hold images in memory for currently visible
> >tab. Plenty of other optimisations that could be looked at to allow
> >Firefox to run better ina memory constrained environment.
> >
> >Darren - I'm sure you have loads from the Linux gaps analysis and the
> >System Tools project, so just fire ahead.
> >
> >Glynn - I assume the best thing here is for you to put up a Google
> >Summer of Code page on the OpenSolaris Desktop home page, that Jim can
> >point to.
> >
> >JR
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