On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 03:11:38PM +0100, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > I have already updated SummerOfCodeIdeas wiki page about that but as > it's coming a bit late in the GSoC schedule, I'm also posting this here.
Out of interest - how far did Mariusz get last year? I think his GSoC project was similar. Cheers, Peter > So, here is a project idea for the GSoC: > > One of the main area preventing XCB wide adoption over Xlib is input > support. There are some information there[0] (incomplete ATM but it's a > work in progress) about the current status. This SoC project involves > porting Xlib keyboard functions to XCB and working on related X > extensions (such as XKB, XKB2...). > > You don't really have to know XCB, so this project would definitely be a > really good starting point if you are interested in low-level X > programming and work on something that will be widely used (XCB is > supposed to be the future of X client library). > > If a student is interested in writing a proposal for this subject, don't > hesitate to send an email to [email protected]. > > Regards, > Arnaud Fontaine > > [0] http://xcb.freedesktop.org/XCBToDoKeyboard > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
