Hi Brian, On Apr 19, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > John: > > A few more ideas: > > + Backport GStreamer 0.10 and media players to Solaris 10. > > + Write a SunAudio GStreamer audio source for recording audio. > > + Write some JNI code to allow JMF to be able to access GStreamer > plugins for formats that GStreamer supports but JMF does not. > This would allow for better media support in Java since GStreamer > supports several nice formats that JMF does not (Theora, Speex, > FLAC, WindowsMedia Audio, WindowsMedia Video, and likely more > Fluendo plugins to come). >
+400 for this last one. I know we discussed this a bit back at the Desktop Summit... Since then Ken Russell and I took a brief look at how best to implement this, but I think both of us are too swamped to pursue it at this point. Seems like a great project for an intern or SoC student developer though. It's all very much do-able, just requires a couple weeks of solid investigation/coding. Thanks, Chris > Brian > >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
