John: Some more ideas of projects that we could do.
+ We know that there are many missing a11y icons, and general work in the GNOME community migrating to the Tango icons, general usability and HIG problems. It would be great to get some icon designers to help flesh out a11y icons. + User docs, API docs, and manpages are other areas where the GNOME community could use more help. There might be tech writers out there who would be interested in working on improving these areas. + QA Testing. We have a lot of interesting in-house experience doing things like testing a11y. I'd think there would be people out there who would get into a mentor relationship where they learned the ins and outs of a11y QA testing, especially with Section 508 requirements becoming more of an issue for many organizations. + a11y. I'm sure the a11y team could think of a number of projects that would be interesting. Dictation software, magnification using compositing, getting libgail to stop using libgnomecanvas, and writing ORCA scripts are ideas that come to mind. Brian > 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 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
