>
> Given the nature of the problem, you'd probably need to mention that you
> would carry on maintaining the project after your first bout with the
> code.


I would be glad to maintain it !

I don't want to demotivate, but founding a completely new project is way
> more complicated than joining or reviving an existing project,


I was aware of Agnubis and Criawpis, and found that those were dead projects
too. I think it's becoming easier to program such tools, with the help of
Clutter and Python/Vala.


I know of at least two people who've started similar projects, though I have
> no idea how far they've gotten:


Thanks for the links, I had never heard of them before (they didn't exist 6
months ago, that might be why). I haven't checked and built their projects
yet, but I think they both have a good start. To quote the homepage of the
first one (Ease) :

this semester I will be developing a new desktop presentation application
> for GNOME, entitled "Ease". Currently, the de facto choice in this area is
> OpenOffice.org Impress, which is poorly integrated into the desktop and is,
> in my opinion, a very clumsy and badly designed application in general.
> Compared to Apple's Keynote <http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/> or even
> PowerPoint, Impress is a decidedly weak option.
>

which is exactly what I think. What should I do then ? I don't want to
duplicate their effort even though I'd be glad to work on such projects, and
I don't think I can join them as a GSoC task, can I ?

Thanks for the answers,

Stéphane.
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