GSOC proposal - control panel
Owen Rudge
owen at owenrudge.net
Wed Mar 26 16:27:58 CDT 2008
Hi everyone,
I'm intending to apply for a Google Summer of Code placement working on the
Wine control panel support. My main intention is to work on a proper Control
Panel application for Wine that accepts standard .cpl files, and turn
winecfg's configuration sections into appropriate control panels. (I notice
that pure_evil @ mail.bg has been doing some work on this - if I were to get
accepted to work on this, then I would like to continue his line of work, or
assist him with it.) However, as I don't believe that project alone would
necessarily take up an entire summer, my intention would also be to work on
some new control panel applets for Wine. The examples given on the GSOC wiki
pages (basic desktop/screen resizing, general network information, and font
details) would be good applets for me to implement, but I would also be
interested in working on some other applets, such as an Add/Remove Programs
applet, or a Multimedia applet. Obviously, there wouldn't necessarily be
time to implement all of these, so my intention would be to get the main
control panel and basic Wine control panel applets from winecfg working well
first, and then look at other applets that could be implemented.
I've developed applications and, indeed, Control Panel applets for Windows
for many years now (I started programming using the Windows API when I was
12!), so I feel confident that this is a task I would be able to handle. I
believe that a good configuration interface for Wine that supports
third-party control panels is something that would be very useful for
end-users.
If anyone has any comments or suggestions regarding my proposal, I'd very
much appreciate any feedback.
Regards,
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Owen Rudge
http://www.owenrudge.net/
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