Summer Of Code Ideas - Revision history

Fred at 08:19, 29 March 2012

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[http://gap.nongnu.org GAP] (GNUstep Application Project) Ideas

Fred at 11:28, 28 March 2011

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Foundation (Base): Removed NSLocale, NSCalendar and NSDateComponents from list.

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	In the list below you find the ideas that have been proposed as projects for the next Summer of Code. If you have a project that would be interesting, feel free to add it here.		In the list below you find the ideas that have been proposed as projects for the next Summer of Code. If you have a project that would be interesting, feel free to add it here.

−	If you find a topic that you want to work on, please apply directly through the SoC page [http://code.google.com/soc~~/2008~~/]	+	If you find a topic that you want to work on, please apply directly through the SoC page [http://code.google.com/soc/]

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	* Implement a Dictionary tool based on dict.leo.org		* Implement a Dictionary tool based on dict.leo.org
		+
		+	* Implement a portable pure obj-c + Foundation GoogleTalk instant messenging (XMPP) kit or alternatively look at
		+	xmppframework as inspiration and/or porting base

	* Some miscellaneous applications that run a Cocoa GUI could be ported to GNUstep:		* Some miscellaneous applications that run a Cocoa GUI could be ported to GNUstep:

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 == AppKit (GUI) ==
 * Complete theming support ... go through each control in the gui and make sure it draws itself using the theming engine, adding methods to the theming engine as required. Update/improve Thematic.app to match by providing wysiwyg editine/cretion of themes for each control.
 * Text System should be cleaned, profiled and finished. Many methods in NSLayoutManager are unfinished or unimplemented, so we currently cannot tweak the test system as much as the one provided by Cocoa. (Quentin Mathe)
 * We need NSTypeSetter, NSGlyphStorage, NSGlyphInfo, and NSGlyphGenerator implementations. If NSTypeSetter and NSLayoutManager were implemented, they would probably be used in Etoile. (Quentin Mathe)
-* NSTextTable, NSTextTableBlock, NSTextList, & NSTextBlock implementations would also bring the GNUstep text system in line with that of Cocoa as of Mac OS 10.4. The classes could be useful to build a powerful word processor, NSTextTable will help getting Tables for SimpleWebKit. (Quentin Mathe)
+* NSTextTable, NSTextTableBlock, NSTextList, & NSTextBlock implementations would also bring the GNUstep text system in line with that of Cocoa as of Mac OS 10.4. The classes could be useful to build a powerful word processor, NSTextTable will help getting Tables for SimpleWebKit. Add relevant UI components (e.g. OS X has some inspectors for these that let you create tables and lists in a text view). (Quentin Mathe, David Chisnell)
 * NSOpenGL Classes could be improved, made compatible with current Cocoa implementations, and further tested. Note sure about that anymore. Feedback from people using these classes would be useful? (Quentin Mathe)
 * NSBitmapImageRep formats: Currently, we support reading and writing for TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PNM (reading-only). We would like to complete NSEPSImageRep and NSPDFImageRep (with Cairo?). SVG reading and writing support, would be nice too. (Quentin Mathe)
 * NSDatePicker (and obligatory companion NSCell subclass) implementation.
 * Backend: especially xlib but also art could use performance improvements. NSImageView scrolling on xlib comes to my mind for example. (shouldn't improvements focus on the preferred, cairo backend rather than the deprecated ones?)
 * improve our RTF parser, to be able to correctly load OO and MS-Office created RTFs. Add support for reading NeXT RTFDs. Correct loading of Apple RTFs including char encoding
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 == Misc ==
 * Create an AJAX Framework for GNUstepWeb
 ** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/wonder Project WONDER], especially the stuff mentioned here: [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:WebObjects/Project_WONDER/Frameworks/Ajax] could be ported over from Java. See also [http://search.lists.apple.com/?cmd=Search!&fmt=long&form=extended&m=all&ps=10&q=Ajax&sp=1&ul=webobjects-dev&wf=2221&wm=wrd&s=DRP] and [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=webobjects+ajax&btnG=Search]
 * There's a truck load of stuff in WO 5.4.1 that GNUstepWeb is missing: [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/WO541Reference/index.html]
 * Add support for exposing objects on D-Bus to DBusKit.
-* User your yacc/bison and (f)lex knowledge to finalize a source code translator for ObjC-2.0 to ObjC-1.0 [http://www.quantum-step.com/download/sources/mySTEP/objc-2.0/]
+* Use your yacc/bison and (f)lex knowledge to finalize a source code translator for ObjC-2.0 to ObjC-1.0 [http://www.quantum-step.com/download/sources/mySTEP/objc-2.0/]
 * ''OpenGL extensions management API'': before using an OpenGL extension a program must first determine its availability. The mechanism for doing this is platform-specific and libraries such as [[w:GLEW]] and [[w:GLEE]] exist to simplify the process. The target of this project is a multiplatform Objective-C wrapper around OpenGL platform-specific functions.
 * ''HID API'': GNUstep can only handle the usual ''human interface devices'' (HID) : keyboard and mouse. A multiplatform framework would allow  GNUstep application to handle joystick, graphic tablet or 3D device.

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 ** [http://sourceforge.net/projects/wonder Project WONDER], especially the stuff mentioned here: [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:WebObjects/Project_WONDER/Frameworks/Ajax] could be ported over from Java. See also [http://search.lists.apple.com/?cmd=Search!&fmt=long&form=extended&m=all&ps=10&q=Ajax&sp=1&ul=webobjects-dev&wf=2221&wm=wrd&s=DRP] and [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=webobjects+ajax&btnG=Search]
 * There's a truck load of stuff in WO 5.4.1 that GNUstepWeb is missing: [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/WO541Reference/index.html]
-* Create Objective-C bindings for DBUS
+* Add support for exposing objects on D-Bus to DBusKit.
 * User your yacc/bison and (f)lex knowledge to finalize a source code translator for ObjC-2.0 to ObjC-1.0 [http://www.quantum-step.com/download/sources/mySTEP/objc-2.0/]
 * ''OpenGL extensions management API'': before using an OpenGL extension a program must first determine its availability. The mechanism for doing this is platform-specific and libraries such as [[w:GLEW]] and [[w:GLEE]] exist to simplify the process. The target of this project is a multiplatform Objective-C wrapper around OpenGL platform-specific functions.

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 == Foundation (Base) ==
 * Improve testsuite to have regression tests cover much more of base library.
 * Implement Apple's scripting/apple-events classes as a subproject of the base library.
 * Complete separation of gnustep specific extensions from Apple APIs and implement new Apple methods missing from existing classes for compatibility.

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 * implementation (Extract from Addresses) of an iSync compatible framework, its corresponding management application and then integrating it with AddressBook (which already has part of such framework). The goal would be to have synchronization of Addresses (but in future, perhaps calendar, Vespucci bookmarks) gnustep to gnustep, gnustep to mac and gnustep to .Mac/MobileMe by having such account.
 * porting of Applications from OpenStep or Cocoa abandonware. This needs to be checked on application-per-application: License and dependencies can be a problem as defining the scope of the project well.
 * Some miscellaneous applications that run a Cocoa GUI could be ported to GNUstep:

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 * Debug and Complete FlexiSheet, making sure it works on Cocoa as expected and noting incompatibilities with GNUstep. Those should be either fixed for both platforms (FlexiSheet portability of code improvement) or noted as a bug or missing feature in GNUstep.
 ** printing
-** formatting
+** cell formatting
-** undo
+** improved undo
-* implement (Extract from Addresses) an iSync compatible framework, its corresponding management application and then integrating it with AddressBook (which already has part of such framework). The goal would be to have synchronization of Addresses (but in future, perhaps calendar, Vespucci bookmarks) gnustep to gnustep, gnustep to mac and gnustep to .Mac/MobileMe by having such account.
+** searching
 * porting of Applications from OpenStep or Cocoa abandonware. This needs to be checked on application-per-application: License and dependencies can be a problem as defining the scope of the project well.
 * Some miscellaneous applications that run a Cocoa GUI could be ported to GNUstep:
 ** ''Vim GUI'' : at least two cocoa-based gui projects already exist - [http://www.ohloh.net/p/vim-cocoa vim-cocoa] and [http://macvim.org/OSX mac-vim]
-** [http://www.videolan.org/vlc VLC media player] : a Cocoa based interface exists for VLC.
+** [http://www.videolan.org/vlc VLC media player] : a Cocoa based interface exists for VLC

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 * ''HID API'': GNUstep can only handle the usual ''human interface devices'' (HID) : keyboard and mouse. A multiplatform framework would allow  GNUstep application to handle joystick, graphic tablet or 3D device.
-== GAP (GNUstep Application Project) Ideas ==
+== [http://gap.nongnu.org GAP] (GNUstep Application Project) Ideas ==
 * Debug and Complete FlexiSheet, making sure it works on Cocoa as expected and noting incompatibilities with GNUstep. Those should be either fixed for both platforms (FlexiSheet portability of code improvement) or noted as a bug or missing feature in GNUstep.