Hello<br><br>I'm Mariusz Pluciński, student of Information Technology in Gdańsk University of Technology (Poland). I decided to apply to Google Summer of Code in your project, cause I've been fascinated in Wine for a long time (without Wine, migration to open source OS would not be possible for me). In my opinion, one of the biggest problem for Wine is problems with support games written for MS Windows, so making progress in this area is something which I want to work on.<br>
<br>I know C programming language very well, just as programming in
Microsoft Windows APIs and Microsoft's COM technology. I also have some
experience in working on open source - in Kdenlive project (video
editor). I do a polish translation there, but I have also sent several
patches to source code. In the past I was also reading some parts of Wine source code, so I know somewhat about how Wine's works and how it's code looks.<br><br>In Google Summer of Code, I'm interested in implementation of new gaming APIs created by Microsoft for Windows Vista and enlarged in Windows 7. Main part of this is implementation of four COM interfaces: IGameExplorer, IGameExplorer2, IGameStatistics and IGameStatisticsMgr. In the bugzilla there's stub implementation of IGameExplorer interface, which may be good start point for me in development. Main parts of task will probably be creation of database to store games' data and parser of GDF files (Game Definition File).<br>
<br>
In favorable circumstances, if the APIs implementation is done fast enough, I will start work on simple equivalent of Windows Game Explorer application. It would be nice for Wine's users to control their games from one application, similar way as they do it in MS Windows. Also, application will use Game Statistics interfaces, so it will be good practical test for these interfaces.<br>
<br>I hope my idea will get your acceptance.<br>
<br>Thanks<br>