My name is Grant Kelly and I am a computer science student at the University of Nevada, Reno. I am enrolled in a course called Senior Projects. The purpose of this course is to go through a software engineering process and actually develop an idea into software. I would like to take this opportunity to develop something for the Gentoo (or Linux) community. One requirement is to have a graphical user interface, even an extremely simple one is fine.
So basically I am looking for an idea or topic for something that needs to be done. The project would of course be open-source as I would host it on source forge. There will be three (myself included) students involved with the project. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
Some potential ideas are available on the desktop-research page [1].
Also note that a tool specific to Gentoo's needs would be more useful than a multi-distro tool, because many of those already exist (see gnome-system-tools, e.g.). For example, things like profuse, etc. would be most useful -- a tool we can't get somewhere else, because only Gentoo needs it.
Damien Krotkine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) would probably be an excellent person to talk with about this project. dams, are you listening? =)
One tool that would be particularly useful is a GUI sound-card configuration utility. In general, there seems to be a lack of good ones among all distributions I've seen.
If you're interested in contributing something to an existing project, we've got an installer in the works [2] that already has two front-ends in the works, dialog and gtk. Another option would be adding a QT front-end.
Thanks, Donnie
1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/research/config_tools.xml 2. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/installer/
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