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Re: Google Summer of Code Ideas

 

Thanks, David.

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:19 AM, David Gomes <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We decided not to apply given that we need to give higher focus to
> stabilizing our current projects and not just writing a bunch of new ones.
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Nikos Vasilakis <nikos.ailo@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Did we apply, eventually?
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > To be clear, what I'm saying is maybe we shouldn't be trying to make up
>> > stuff to do just to participate in Gsoc when we already have quite a lot
>> > to
>> > do even though it doesn't fit into Gsoc
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Daniel Foré
>> > elementaryos.org
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This thread is starting to look and sound like just a massive
>> >> distraction.
>> >> We already have quite a lot of very important things to do. I think one
>> >> of
>> >> the most important of which is get AppCenter to a shippable state.
>> >>
>> >> New things are cool and fun and exciting, but if we really have the
>> >> extra
>> >> time and resources I think we should be focusing on making sure what we
>> >> already have is the best it can be.
>> >>
>> >> * There is still no search in Files
>> >> * We just picked up Photos which needs a lot of work to bring its UI
>> >> into
>> >> alignment with our other apps
>> >> * judging by the popularity of indicator synapse, we should probably
>> >> investigate using libsynapse to improve the results in Slingshot
>> >> * We need to fix deprecation warnings involving granite and gtk
>> >> * Pantheon Online Accounts needs to be integrated into our default apps
>> >> * Indicators are holding us back from Pantheon running on other
>> >> platforms
>> >> and frankly their designs aren't the best they could be.
>> >> * Audience could use its UI re-written in GTK (instead of raw Cairo)
>> >> now
>> >> that we have things like overlay and revealer and can use custom CSS
>> >>
>> >> I mean there are literally a couple thousand bug reports open right
>> >> now.
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> Daniel Foré
>> >> elementaryos.org
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Pepijn de Vos <pepijndevos@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> This tread is just the best way of finding software I need :)
>> >>>
>> >>> Would be cool if they where more easily discoverable though.
>> >>> This was a good start:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://www.elementaryupdate.com/2013/08/top-things-to-do-after-installing-luna.html
>> >>>
>> >>> Elementary's new motto: There's a PPA for that!
>> >>>
>> >>> But... what's wrong with just using Dropbox or UbuntuOne?
>> >>>
>> >>> I am aware that Preview does SOME things, but I never looked closely.
>> >>>
>> >>> So much Mac stealing going on here :D
>> >>> OS X is good, but not everything that's good is OS X.
>> >>>
>> >>> Pepijn
>> >>>
>> >>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Nikos Vasilakis
>> >>> <nikos.ailo@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Also, we have something similar, I believe:
>> >>> https://github.com/kjlaw89/draw On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:18 AM,
>> >>> Tristan
>> >>> Petersen <tristang4@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Pepijn, Are you familiar with the annotations feature of Mac OS X
>> >>> Preview
>> >>> app? It does essentially what you describe. I use it all the time to
>> >>> quickly
>> >>> annotate screenshots or pdfs. Regards, Tristan
>> >>>
>> >>> On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:41, Pepijn de Vos <pepijndevos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>> Another random idea, that is not a ripoff of OS X is... MS Paint!
>> >>> Something
>> >>> to annotate screenshots or draw a quick schematic. For real photo
>> >>> editing
>> >>> there is gimp, but something light to quickly draw and annotate is
>> >>> missing
>> >>> even from OS X.
>> >>>
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