Updating GSoC proposal

[Vitaliy Margolen]

On 03/20/2012 03:43 AM, Jacek Caban wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> GSoC is starting this year and, if we want to have good applications, we
> need to update our proposals. Usually the most attention is directed
> into adding new ones, while we keep obviously bad (or just bad IMO)
> proposals on the page. I'm planning to remove following project proposals:
>
> Security - implement sandboxing
> Theming - Implement Wine theming support
> NTDLL - support performance registry keys
> Winelib Aware Scons (or cmake)
> Cleanup Winemenubuilder to support generating Application Bundles on Mac
> OS X
> Wine-based application virtualization
>

I don't think we should remove all of them. These projects should probably stay:

Theming - there are few things that could be done here:
1. Implement comctl v6 controls. Probably way too much for one GSoC project
2. Interact with host desktop environment to sync at least colors. This one 
is more of a research then codding. Plus convincing AJ that we want that 
code in. Also questionable if it can be done in pure C. Of course it can be 
just a standalone program.

Sandboxing - a great project for a security researcher. However the scope of 
it can be huge.

Thin app - depends on how to look at it:
1. Not directly helping Wine but along the same lines as Windows' wined3d.
2. Needs some tricky functions implemented.
3. Needs a way to build and incorporate win-pe wine dlls into Wine. This is 
a tough one but helps some some applications as well.

Vitaliy.