Hi Marek, Marek Vavrusa wrote: > Hello there, > I would like to integrate libfprint into KDE possibly as GSoC project, > as well as enhance funcionality of fprint itself.
Thanks for your interest. I like the idea of a GSoC student working on the project but I'm not sure that I could identify any one project that would be good to work on. Things are in flux at the moment: http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2008/03/asynchronous-fingerprint-scanning/ My roadmap is approximately: 1. Complete, stabilise and release libusb-1.0 2. Improve libfprint asynchronous API 3. Complete, stabilise and release libfprint-0.1 4. Complete, stabilise and release fprintd 5. Work on better application integration Integrating into KDE really falls under 5, but that item depends on everything below it, and all that stuff is volatile and subject to being reworked. I guess GSoC requires well-defined project goals and I'm not sure that you could pick any from that given the dependency chain, unless you were to focus on the only independent item: libusb. I also am not sure how much progress I will make between now and the start of the summer, and over the summer itself. I will be working full time over the summer so would not be able to give you specific attention either. > I'd like to ask for your oppinion/comments on some points I'd like to sort > out :) > > * Storing multiple prints per finger - this would be awesome because its > sometimes really awkward to match one exact print Interesting idea. Another way to improve accuracy is to take multiple scans of the finger during enrollment, assess their quality, and only use the best one. > * Storing all the prints in system-wide database so it would be possible to > just scan and login manager will look it up in the database and logs in > matching user. Yes, a much wanted feature. A proper implementation of this depends on everything I listed above. fprintd would have some kind of configurable/pluggable storage system, with one such storage module being a systemwide fingerprint database. Daniel _______________________________________________ fprint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.reactivated.net/mailman/listinfo/fprint
