programming/GSoC 2008 » Addressing desktop integration issues

While GNUstep is a powerful environment for developing applications, there are still some issues with certain window managers. As well, GNUstep applications do not always work well with non-GNUstep applications.

The freedesktop.org project was formed to address interoperability issues between different desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE. The focus of this project is to improve GNUstep's compiliance with freedesktop.org specifications, as well as possibly using some of freedesktop.org's software, without sacrificing any of GNUstep's features.

Mentor: Fred Kiefer

The notation for this to-do list is based on David Allen's "Getting Things Done" system and "Natural Project Planning", and is created using Emacs Org mode.

• DONE finish setting up these web pages    ADMINISTRATIVE
  
• DONE set up feed of GSoC-only blog posts    ADMINISTRATIVE
  
• DONE make list of fdo specifications/software    READING
  indicate which ones GNUstep should support, and which ones are not applicable
• DONE set up this To-Do list with org mode    ADMINISTRATIVE
  
• NEXT discuss with Fred which projects to work on    COLLABORATION
  

• window focusing issues
• EWMH hints
• clipboard
• XDND
• startup notification
• XEmbed client
• System Tray (requires XEmbed client support)
• GStreamer
• desktop entry
• icon naming/icon theme
• thumbnail reading