GSoC proposal

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Cheer Xiao <xiaqqaix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I opened bug 30255 [1](which, unfortunately, was just marked duplicate
> as bug 19263 [2]), which I believe is a long-standing issue. Simply
> put, uxthemes has some performance problems, and consequently UI
> rendering with theming enabled would lag a lot. Since I'm also
> planning for GSoC, I would like make that my GSoC proposal and fix the
> bug myself. Also, there are failing tests regarding dlls/uxtheme -
> running dlls/uxtheme/tests/uxtheme_test.exe.so gives 11 failures out
> of a total of 56 executed tests. I can try to fix that too. With all
> of these, this may still be a trivial proposal. To make it less
> trivial :), I would also like to work on the gtk+ theming bridge [3],
> once the performance issue is fixed.
>
> I also have another alternative proposal, i.e. to implement full IME
> support so that Windows IMEs can be used on Linux. That would consists
> of basically two parts - the Win32 API (which, after a brief
> inspection, seems to be at least partly implemented) to handle the
> Windows part and a daemon to handle the Linux part (half like win32's
> ctfmon.exe and half like ibus-daemon). But I haven't investigated much
> into that yet, so I don't have much to say. Still, your suggestions
> are very welcome.
>
> And a few words about myself: I have been one of the primary
> maintainers of simplified Chinese translation of Wine during the past
> few years - so I have already got my name into AUTHORS ;-). I know
> quite some C - read K&R thoroughly, plus experience in a few small
> projects; I also know the Git workflow well. I'd love to help fix bug
> 10000 so that Unix can take over the world ;-).
>
> Your suggestions and ideas are very welcome.
>
> 1. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30255
> 2. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19263
> 3. http://wiki.winehq.org/ThemingSupport
>
> --
> Regards,
> Cheer Xiao aka. xiaq
>

Welcome, hope to see you in gsoc :)

UXTheme came up in another thread recently. While I'm not familiar with the
code, I don't think Wine is anywhere near ready to have a theming bridge.
Work on theming in general gets an immense +1 from me though, but my vote
won't matter here :)

J. Leclanche
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