Projects/TaskList

Aim

To help students start contributing to Free Software.

Ideas

1. Add a feature to gnome games so that it pauses the game when focus is moved from the game window (gnome mines already have it) - SANTOSH G VATTAM
   • Steps
     1. Checkout gnome games svn start here
     2. Locate the timer implementation
2. Add creation and verification of gpg signatures from seahorse. Associate seahorse with .sig files (detached gpg signature) and add functionality in seahorse to handle this and verify
3. Make DHCP client smarter while booting - first check whether network cable is present before requesting DHCP ip
4. Make thunderbird new mail alarm bit more friendly. When you click on a subject in the new mail notifier it should open the mail in a new window.
5. Show unicode characters in firefox address bar. Now it shows % escaped values
6. Add unicode support to sIFR (Free Software answer to font embedding problem).
7. Add sIRF support to gnash (currently you cannot select sIRF text from gnash
8. Build a cross debootstrap root file system for hurd. debootstrap is debian package to create root file systems from debian packages.
9. Add Kannada support to Sarika, first Free Software Indian language speech recognition system
10. Add Hindi support to Sarika
11. Tune Sarika to understand Dhvani, text to speech system for Indian languages
12. Create a jhbuild moduleset to build debian packages from gnome 2.20 tarballs. Jhbuild is a build tool used for building big projects which has lot of different dependent packages
13. Create a jhbuild module for a small bootable root filesystem
14. Create a smtp translator for GNU/Hurd. Send an email when you copy a file and file.address to the directory
15. Join Mediawiki, Firefox and Open Office to transparently edit wiki pages in WYSIWYG mode.
16. Lightning calendar extension to be linked with system calendar.
17. s5 presentation support to be added to nvu/mozilla composer. Create a presentation format s5p as a zipped folder containing s5 format presentation.
18. Bluetooth gui for gnome. Add missing features (compare with kde bluetooth)
19. Add support to capture region in gnome-screensaver
20. pst2mbox - add support to Exchange 2003 support.
21. Make nautilus overwrite dialog friendlier by showing comparison of files (like size modified time...)
22. When we copy some text from FireFox and want to paste it in some other place say gedit but we close the firefox window we are not able to paste the text which was copied from closed FireFox window. This is really irritating at times. So this can be fixed (Idea Contributed By Aditya Kavoor, Probably he will only take this up.) see more info about this bug
23. http://www.linux.com/feature/119363
24. I have 2 users on my system. When USER_1 logs on with gnome then selects "switch user" option from the system -> log out menu and USER_2 logs in using xfce manager (this session only) then clicks on the "log out" applet on the default xfce setup USER_2's session shuts down and immediately goes to USER_1's session without a password. A serious bug in Xfce...see more info about this bug
25. Encoding Unicode data for XML and HTML.

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Contacts

1. Praveen A - 99863 four eight 565
2. Madhusudan CS - +91-9964584883
3. Santosh G Vattam - 9916533941
4. Vikram Vincent