Additional mentors for GSOC project

2020-04-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi all, this was posted to a list I don't subscribe to, but Ralf is still needing some co-mentors, so am copy/pasting: Additional mentor for GSOC project searched > Ralf Habacker ralf.habacker at freenet.de > Wed Apr 8 11:40:42 BST 2020 > Hi, > for the appended GSOC project KDE o

Re: GSoC Project

2020-03-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi Luis, On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 6:51 AM luis salomao wrote: > Hi everyone, > My name is Luis Salomão, and i would like to apply to a project on ROCS, > so i can participate com GSoC. > I am currently talking with Caio Tonetti on how to apply and reguarding > the project as well. > Great! That

GSoC Project

2020-03-18 Thread luis salomao
Hi everyone, My name is Luis Salomão, and i would like to apply to a project on ROCS, so i can participate com GSoC. I am currently talking with Caio Tonetti on how to apply and reguarding the project as well. I would like to know how to introduce myself reguarding my programming skills, so if

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-25 Thread David Edmundson
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 5:16 AM, Lukas Hetzenecker wrote: > Hello, > > On 2017-03-22 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: > >> I have only one application left with problems and that's krdc: when I >> tell it >> to create a display (for example) 640x480, it does that in >> device-independent >> pixels,

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quinta-feira, 23 de março de 2017 09:26:26 PDT Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > No, since I don't know who Morten is Morten Sørvig, the engineer who made the big changest o HiDPI support in 5.6. > (Also, to have proper HiDPi on Windows, you need to patch every Qt build > since 5.6 ) -- Thiago

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-23 Thread Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Hello, On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, at 17:07, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, at 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > > problem with VLC, but I suspect it would be the exact same issue. > > > > The issue with VLC is that you want to have native size (pixel-by-pixel) > > for the video player

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-23 Thread Thiago Macieira
On quarta-feira, 22 de março de 2017 00:58:20 PDT Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, at 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > problem with VLC, but I suspect it would be the exact same issue. > > The issue with VLC is that you want to have native size (pixel-by-pixel) > for

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread Lukas Hetzenecker
Hello, On 2017-03-22 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: I have only one application left with problems and that's krdc: when I tell it to create a display (for example) 640x480, it does that in device-independent pixels, so it actually creates an area 1280x960, which is 4x bigger than the display

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread lukas
Hello, first of all - thanks to all for reading my proposal and your suggestions. I will apply this patch and test if it improves the situation. But as far as I see now, this only changes the positioning of windows. There seem to be other rendering issues in a variety of applications, mostly

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread Martin Bříza
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:19:17 +0100, Stefan Derkits wrote: On 2017-03-22 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: Note that fractional scaling is not supported by Qt. You can do 1x or 2x, but nothing in-between. KDE System Settings allow fractional scaling. So probably should be fixed in System Settin

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hi, On 2017-03-22 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: > I have only one application left with problems and that's krdc: when I tell > it > to create a display (for example) 640x480, it does that in device-independent > pixels, so it actually creates an area 1280x960, which is 4x bigger than the > di

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Hello, On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, at 08:03, Thiago Macieira wrote: > problem with VLC, but I suspect it would be the exact same issue. The issue with VLC is that you want to have native size (pixel-by-pixel) for the video player but scaled UI for the rest. And Qt is not making that simple for us... It

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-22 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em terça-feira, 21 de março de 2017, às 03:51:16 PDT, Stefan Derkits escreveu: > On 2017-03-21 00:34, Lukas Hetzenecker wrote: > > I’m looking also forward to any feedback you have about this proposal. > > I would really love to see the results of such a project. As I wrote you > in a personal mai

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-21 Thread David Edmundson
Looks like a very strong proposal. Can you break the timeline down where you have "fix applications" into much more specific apps with timescale. Possibly even breaking down the different bits of apps. It doesn't matter if we deviate from it when GSOC starts, but it'll show that you have a realist

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-21 Thread Stefan Derkits
Hello, this proposal makes me happy, not only because I have a 4K Screen, but also because Lukas was a Student in a course at University about Software Engineering in C++/Qt of which I was part of the teaching team. And we need more people in Austria involved into KDE :) On 2017-03-21 00:34, Luka

Re: GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-20 Thread Lukas Hetzenecker
I'm so sorry that sendgrid changed my plain-text version of the mail, here is the original: Hello fellow developers. I’m a student at the Technical University of Vienna in Austria and would love to participate in the upcoming Google Summer of Code. I have already talked about this proposal on IRC

GSoC Project Proposal: Make High-DPI awesome

2017-03-20 Thread Lukas Hetzenecker
Hello fellow developers. I’m a student at the Technical University of Vienna in Austria and would love to participate in the upcoming Google Summer of Code. I have already talked about this proposal on IRC, but now I want to present the full document (continuously updated version at https://u40605

Proposal for a GSoC project (KConfig/cloud/kdebase)

2014-03-17 Thread Jinesh K J
Hello KDE devs and GSoC mentors, I know its kind of last moment for GSoC ideas but I have had this one for quite some time in my mind and I would like to give it a shot. Since the deadline is approaching fast I will try to get to my point as quickly as possible so that you don't have to read much.

Re: GSoC project idea: Unlocking KWallet using PAM (I'm student)

2013-05-01 Thread Thomas Lübking
ink that fixing this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92845 could be a good GSoC project. It seems that KWallet can't be started from pam module (like gnome-keyring do), but some "unlock helper" can be started with pam_exec.so. Password (or hash) then can be passed to k

GSoC project idea: Unlocking KWallet using PAM (I'm student)

2013-05-01 Thread Alexander Mezin
Hello. I think that fixing this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92845 could be a good GSoC project. It seems that KWallet can't be started from pam module (like gnome-keyring do), but some "unlock helper" can be started with pam_exec.so. Password (or hash) then c

Re: Basic queries regarding GSOC project idea : Web based project report

2013-04-17 Thread Rafael Fernández López
I don't know how this mail could get into my spam folder. I am answering in a few hours. Sorry for the late reply. 2013/4/12 Lydia Pintscher > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Lorefnon wrote: > > Hello, > > I wanted to inquire about the project idea for summer of code - Web based > > project re

Re: Basic queries regarding GSOC project idea : Web based project report

2013-04-12 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Lorefnon wrote: > Hello, > I wanted to inquire about the project idea for summer of code - Web based > project report that aims to aggregate information from a multitude of > sources (mentioned ones are - Git, Bugzilla and mailing lists) into a > unified web-interfa

Basic queries regarding GSOC project idea : Web based project report

2013-04-08 Thread Lorefnon
Hello, I wanted to inquire about the project idea for summer of code - Web based project report that aims to aggregate information from a multitude of sources (mentioned ones are - Git, Bugzilla and mailing lists) into a unified web-interface along with useful statistics. The project objective tha

Re: GSOC PROJECT

2012-04-29 Thread Teo Mrnjavac
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:59, Nishant Gupta wrote: > Sir, > > I am Nishant Gupta, a participant of GSOC 2012, wanted to contribute > something in open source software. So I applied for GSOC and had submitted > my proposals for companies which I applied but unfortunately couldn't be > selected due

Anyone willing to mentor a KDE games GSoC project?

2012-03-17 Thread Viranch Mehta
Hi all, I am planning to apply for GSoC this year with a project idea from the ideas list for KDE Games. The idea is to port a KDE game to QML. No one from KDE games has stepped up for mentoring it yet. Since QML/ QtQuick is well known among developers across KDE, I was wondering if any one from o