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On 2017-03-19 20:58, Rafał Wojdyła wrote: > On 2017-03-13 11:01, Soumyadeep Kundu wrote: >> Hello Sir, > Hello! I'm sorry for the late reply, I've been barely conscious > this week thanks to a bad case of flu. > >> I am Soumyadeep Kundu, a second year undergrad pursuing Computer >> Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. I >> am very much interested to contribute to QubesOS. I have already >> introduced myself in the mailing list. There I have been told to >> contact you. I am specially interested in : 1. Audio support for >> Qubes Windows Tool 2. Improve Windows GUI agent performance and >> stability. 3. GUI agent for Windows 8/10. All of these projects >> are under you. In the past few days, I was getting myself well >> acquainted with QubesOS. I was also learning about the Windows >> APIs, as it is a prerequisite for the projects. Can you please >> guide me in what should I do next, or if you can give me a >> starting task so that I can start with. Thanking You, Regards, >> Soumyadeep Kundu >> > I think 1) or 2) would be the easiest projects to try. > > Investigating GUI agent performance would require knowing how > Windows windowing and input APIs work as well as how to operate a > system profiler. You can find the agent's code here: > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-gui-agent-windows/tree/master It > has two main components: a custom video driver and a background > service. The driver manages display memory and provides the service > with address of the framebuffer (and notifies when a refresh > occurs). The service either maintains a list of application windows > (in seamless mode) or just a desktop window and sends this info to > dom0. Service also receives input events from dom0 and "replies" > them in the Windows VM. I think the last part (input simulation) is > the main case of poor performance, but you would need to double > check this. > > As for audio support, I think implementing a pulseaudio endpoint > on Windows and connecting it to dom0 would be your best bet. I > don't know the details on how the audio works for Linux VMs, but > feel free to ask on this mailing list if you want to know more. See > this for Linux implementation: > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-gui-agent-linux/tree/master/pulse > I'm not sure how well pulseaudio runs on Windows so that would be > the first thing to check. > > I hope that helps! > - -- Best Regards, Rafał Wojdyła Invisible Things Lab -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYzuN8AAoJEIWi9rB2GrW7JhEH/iL1OZvqn+ndBNiYFYBAlRkz rwWz4lz40Uopesu1pRl71ROG/PRJ4jGFFpen2rzn8NFvj0Al5pER1YVQNHslNLhE q0Jt18PMsnZCnIdyzjc4bL340nhjmpVEa+RanmRzVIXo5J5xh0fcosxChyzoHn5O /2HgZnb00D2bORqm0qaCy7lH8aya3Q6FiuTQet4Rv2YdugTyZlpikAOAKWizcEZE pcgZZiUM2928NowQjrUpLSWxu54bYO6nHyaW7cIdhfuwbZsPLUcCb1cr+5MbslFs mKeoPIQ26QSC6UxnziXdHmnZZNiMprbw2FEtqA7OoBqeJGu4OWzBPvr0e3Pvfnw= =JbDI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/ba8c8f33-eeda-f7f9-6b1f-5c0d436b40cb%40invisiblethingslab.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
