I am thinking of trying to add infrared remote support through LIRC to GNOME, and have a couple of questions.
1. Would this make a good Google Summer of Code project? Is it big enough? too big? 2. Is this too big a chunk to bite off for a rather new developer? I'm a rather new developer, and while I know C, I lack practical experience when it comes to big projects. 3. What is the best way implement it? Would it be best done as a panel applet? as a plugin to gnome-settings-daemon such as the current multimedia-keys plugin? or as added functionality to the currently existing multimedia-keys plugin? Much of the code (specifically for volume magement) would probably be at least based on, if not copied from the multimedia-keys plugin. 4. Is this something people want in GNOME, and has it been done already? I aquired a IR remote a couple of months ago, and spent hours on google trying to figure out how to make my remote control my volume through GNOME so that I could get the nice little popup and everything, and the only thing I found, was that no one can do it. Thanks for your input, --Jason Ekstrand _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
