-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 01:52:27PM -0700, John Casey wrote: > Hi all,
Hi! > So I've been crushed by mid-terms for the last three weeks, as a result, > I'm only now finishing my proposals for GSOC 2017. > > OSS has been an interest of mine for a while and GSOC has been the push I > needed to actually get involved. > > Looking at the issues list <https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues>, much > of it seems to be far more complex than could be satisfied over the summer. > However, the issues raised in #1117 seem appropriate to me. This list is very broad, I strongly suggest focusing on some subset of it. Have you seen GSoC ideas list[1]? There are also GUI and/or UX related ideas. As for ideas not mentioned there, take a look issues with label "UX". For example those: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2304 https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2329 https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2139 https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/899 https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/952 > I like the idea of improving the usability of the project because a scary > or non existence interface can often cause users move away. > > Playing with GTK, I think many of these issues should be suitable for GSOC. Oh, and there is one more thing - VM settings window. In Qubes 4.0 we're going to decompose Qubes VM Manager into separate applications[2]. VM status monitoring (moved to Xfce4 panel applet) is already handled by Kalkin-, but it isn't all. Initially we've planned to reuse old Qt-based VM settings window as standalone application and simply call it from the menu and/or that applet. But if you'd like to rewrite it in GTK as GSoC project, that would be great! That old Qt-based code isn't perfect piece of software... There was an attempt to do that already and also some code is available[3], but it's far from complete and finishing that work (if any of that would be good enough to use...) would still be a perfect 3-month task. > If anyone has any usability/GUI tickets that you think I should look at do > let me know. > > So, I'm gonna call this fashionably late. > John. > [1] https://www.qubes-os.org/gsoc/ [2] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2132 [3] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1870 - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJY4ByQAAoJENuP0xzK19cs0dkH/1mRoFW2LSzzPyCwFOQn6+Cc U7HTDi0vC6mQ5l8DZIkacTCl1mkrhdNQI1wKA2fRr2rJzhR4d6RqwHSr798vgd7J GObKMuhErjSZaPtcYuy+JQYnf3x3aiwGowCn8ytCuhTzto8fG2eJ/nJJoqO8X6d/ VBbMDFNKea6cK36nQJ2fIgjP3wrvrlGXAQlidbWGIfZzAPWBPu+Op7NK8qoFW6jH 2yNq56+1ZuggtI9qknjbVell/F2PQ943XZ3m8jLRdgNXFF4/AVHu0jpPMFoApiY9 x26OvcfbqiNUexIp/Wfg/rOJT03L0mHGC6TOmdNxbI1J0VwvSgRAukgxDtc9nFg= =6joP -----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 qubes-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-devel@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/20170401213304.GW1208%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
