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==== Update the Kiten handbook and userbase documentation ==== | ==== Update the Kiten handbook and userbase documentation ==== | ||
Description: Both userbase documentation and handbook are outdated. The task consist on update the screenshots and features included in the docs | Description: Both userbase documentation and handbook are outdated. The task consist on update the screenshots and features included in the docs to be consistent to the latest version of Kiten. | ||
Handbook: http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdeedu/kiten/index.html | |||
http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdeedu/kiten/index.html. | Userbase doc: http://userbase.kde.org/Kiten | ||
Expected results: send the updated files to the mentor to commit them. | Expected results: send the updated files to the mentor to commit them. |
Revision as of 01:51, 20 October 2011
Guidelines
Information for Students
This page is for collecting ideas for Google Code-in tasks. The tasks will be moved into Melange for you to claim when appropriate.
Adding a Proposal
Please only add proposals you are willing to mentor!
When adding an idea to this section, please try to include the following data:
- a brief explanation
- the expected results
- prerequisites for working on your project if any
- if applicable, links to more information or discussions
- your name and email address for contact
- time to complete the proposal
The proposals should be ordered by area:
- Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
- Documentation: Tasks related to creating/editing documents
- Outreach: Tasks related to community management and outreach/marketing
- Quality Assurance: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality
- Research: Tasks related to studying a problem and recommending solutions
- Training: Tasks related to helping others learn more
- Translation: Tasks related to localization
- User Interface: Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction
Inside these areas they should be ordered by difficulty of the proposal (must be one of easy, medium, hard)
If you have a good idea for a proposal but are not going to mentor it, get in contact with relevant team/contributor first.
Ideas
Code
easy
Adding a twitter functionality (probably invalid because too big and missing a mentor)
Description: I wish to have a twitter functionality into the Plasma App "Microblogging".
Expected results: Full implemented twitter
Prerequisites: Knowledge of QML and JS
Time to complete: ?
Mentor:
Help with PlasmaQtComponents
Description: QtComponents are simple ui elements such as pushbuttons, lineedits etc. a version for Plasma Desktop widgets is in progress, a version targeted to apps of tablet devices will be needed as well. good as tasks since are many little independednt code snippets
Expected results: a number of completed components agreed at project start
Prerequisites: Knowledge of QML and JS
Time to complete: ?
Mentor: Marco Martin
Establish Section for KWin Scripts on kde-apps
Description: Users have no way to exchange KWin scripts. A solution is to add a section to kde-apps.org and at the same time request the GHNS integration.
Expected results: Section for KWin scripts available on kde-apps.org
Prerequisites: none
Time to complete: few hours
Mentor: [email protected]
medium
Configuration Module for KWin Scripting
Description: There is currently no way to manage KWin Scripts. A small KCM should be added to just list the available scripts similar to the rules listing. It should be possible to add, import, remove and export scripts.
Expected results: A KCM to list the available KWin scripts
Prerequisites: Qt programming knowledge
Time to complete: 36 hours
Mentor: [email protected]
GHNS integration for KWin Scripting KCM
Description: When the KWin Scripting KCM is available it would be nice to have the possibility to easily download and share scripts. Therefore GHNS integration should be added.
Expected results: GHNS integration in KWin Scripting KCM
Time to complete: 48 hours
Mentor: [email protected]
GHNS integration for Window Switching layouts
Description: The Alt+Tab (Tabbox) Window Switching is about to be ported to QtQuick interfaces. This allows that users could create their own layout. To support this the existing Tabbox configuration module should receive GHNS support.
Expected results: GHNS integration in Window Switching KCM
Time to complete: 48 hours
Mentor: [email protected]
Add QWhatsThis help and Tooltips in KTouch Settings dialog
Description: KTouch Settings dialog is made with QtDesigner pages. You need to edit these .ui files in QtDesigner and add WhatsThis and Tooltips for the visual widgets that are missing them. Tooltips explain shortly what the setting should do and WhatsThis explains it in more details.
References: http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Architecture/KDE4/Providing_Online_Help
Files to work on: ktouchprefgeneralpage.ui, ktouchprefkeyboardpage.ui, ktouchprefcolorspage.ui and ktouchpreftrainingpage.ui in https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeedu/ktouch/repository/revisions/master/show/src/ui
Expected results: All settings widgets should have tooltips and whatsthis information in KTouch Settings dialog
Prerequisites: QtDesigner basic knowledge, KTouch knowledge, good English writing
Time to complete: 48 hours
Mentor: [email protected]
hard
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Documentation
easy
Rewrite part of KPresenter documentation
Description: Rewriting of KPresenter's "Step by Step Tutorial" in order to be up to date with the new interface
Expected results: understandeable chapter on KPresenter handbook that explain how to create a basic project and how to use some basic features. Must have screenshoots.
Prerequisites: English language, some basic HTML knoweledge.
Time to complete: 48hrs.
Mentor: [email protected]
Update the Amarok Manual to the latest version (approx. 5x)
Description: The current Amarok Manual refers to version 2.4.0 which is already rather old. The task is to check for each entry if the text and screen shots still apply to the current stable version of Amarok and adapt if necessary.
Expected results: have an up-to-date Manual in Userbase.
Prertequisites: English language,some basic HTML knowledge and basic Mediawiki knowledge.
Time to complete: 48 hours.
Mentors: [email protected], [email protected]
Move KWin Scripting documentation to techbase
Description: The user documentation and tutorial for the KWin Scripting module is currently only in two blog posts written by the author of the module. The documentation should be imported into techbase.kde.org and adapted to the Wiki syntax and integrated into the general structure.
Expected results: have KWin scripting documentation and tutorial in Techbase.
Prerequisites: English language, basic Mediawiki knowledge.
Time to complete: 24 hour
Mentors: [email protected]
Redo KTouch handbook screenshots
Description: Redo all documentation screenshots for KTouch because they are outdated. Get KTouch source from git or ask the mentor to provide you a tarball. Use KSnapshot and read http://l10n.kde.org/docs/screenshots.php in order to redo the screenshots in png format with the default KDE theme and windows decoration.
Expected results: send the new screenshots to the mentor who will commit them in the repository.
Prerequisites: preferably look at KTouch user manual prior to doing the task.
Files location: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdeedu/ktouch/repository/revisions/master/show/doc
Time to complete: 24 hour
Mentors: [email protected]
Update the Kiten handbook and userbase documentation
Description: Both userbase documentation and handbook are outdated. The task consist on update the screenshots and features included in the docs to be consistent to the latest version of Kiten. Handbook: http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdeedu/kiten/index.html Userbase doc: http://userbase.kde.org/Kiten
Expected results: send the updated files to the mentor to commit them.
Prerequisites: In case you don't know Kiten, then install it and use it to see what features it offers you. You will probably need a Japanese font on your system in order to search in the dictionary, or you can copy-paste some words on it. Also look to the following screenshot documentation guidelines: http://l10n.kde.org/docs/screenshots.php
Time to complete: 24 to 48 hours
Mentor: Daniel E. Moctezuma ([email protected])
medium
Import KWin Scripting API documentation to techbase
Description: The JavaScript API documentation for KWin Scripting module is currently only available through an application in the KWin source directory which generates an HTML page. The documentation should be made available in techbase.kde.org and follow the structure of JavaScript API documentation for Plasma.
Expected results: KWin Scripting API documentation in Techbase
Prerequisites: Being able to compile source code to generate the API documentation and MediaWiki knowledge
Time to complete: 48 hours
Mentor: [email protected]
hard
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Outreach
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Video ad for KDE - Emotions
Description:
Use all your creativity to create an innovating short film promoting KDE. We are looking for an advertise with new ideas that communicate the spirit behind KDE.
Must verse Kde in different platforms. Creativity is very important.
Your video must have a Kde feeling (lettering, imagery, etc.). Must be according to Kde quality standards.
Quality has to be at least 720p, real action, animation or stop-motion. No screen-cast only video and no 3D animation video are allowed.
Every video, sound and image used must be GPL 3.0 or Creative Commons BY-SA. The video license will be GPL 3.0 or Creative commons BY-SA. The work will have a text file with the following information: - License - Authors - Actors - Technical staff - Score
Expected results: An ad (less that 2 minutes) promoting KDE.
Prerequisites: Script.
Time to complete: 1 week
Mentor: Claudio Desideri (happy dot snizzo at gmail dot com)
Video ad for KDE - Kde Everywhere
Description:
Use all your creativity to create an innovating short film promoting KDE. We are looking for an advertise with new ideas that communicate the spirit behind KDE.
Must verse Kde in different platforms. Creativity is very important.
Your video must have a Kde feeling (lettering, imagery, etc.). Must be according to Kde quality standards.
Quality has to be at least 720p, real action, animation or stop-motion. No screen-cast only video and no 3D animation video are allowed.
Every video, sound and image used must be GPL 3.0 or Creative Commons BY-SA. The video license will be GPL 3.0 or Creative commons BY-SA. The work will have a text file with the following information: - License - Authors - Actors - Technical staff - Score
Expected results: An ad (less that 2 minutes) promoting KDE.
Prerequisites: Script.
Time to complete: 1 week
Mentor: Jorge Salgueiro (jorge dot salgueiro at gmail dot com)
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Video ad for KDE - Experience Freedom
Description:
Use all your creativity to create an innovating short film promoting KDE. We are looking for an advertise with new ideas that communicate the spirit behind KDE.
Must verse Kde in different platforms. Creativity is very important.
Your video must have a Kde feeling (lettering, imagery, etc.). Must be according to Kde quality standards.
Quality has to be at least 720p, real action, animation or stop-motion. No screen-cast only video and no 3D animation video are allowed.
Every video, sound and image used must be GPL 3.0 or Creative Commons BY-SA. The video license will be GPL 3.0 or Creative commons BY-SA. The work will have a text file with the following information: - License - Authors - Actors - Technical staff - Score
Expected results: An ad (less that 2 minutes) promoting KDE.
Prerequisites: Script.
Time to complete: 1 week
Mentor: Claudio Desideri (happy dot snizzo at gmail dot com)
Video ad for KDE - Love
Description:
Use all your creativity to create an innovating short film promoting KDE. We are looking for an advertise with new ideas that communicate the spirit behind KDE.
Must verse Kde in different platforms. Creativity is very important.
Your video must have a Kde feeling (lettering, imagery, etc.). Must be according to Kde quality standards.
Quality has to be at least 720p, real action, animation or stop-motion. No screen-cast only video and no 3D animation video are allowed.
Every video, sound and image used must be GPL 3.0 or Creative Commons BY-SA. The video license will be GPL 3.0 or Creative commons BY-SA. The work will have a text file with the following information: - License - Authors - Actors - Technical staff - Score
Expected results: An ad (less that 2 minutes) promoting KDE.
Prerequisites: Script.
Time to complete: 1 week
Mentor: Claudio Desideri (happy dot snizzo at gmail dot com)
Video ad for KDE - Plasma Active
Description:
Use all your creativity to create an innovating short film promoting KDE. We are looking for an advertise with new ideas that communicate the spirit behind KDE.
Must verse Plasma Active. Creativity is very important.
Your video must have a Kde feeling (lettering, imagery, etc.). Must be according to Kde quality standards.
Quality has to be at least 720p, real action, animation or stop-motion. No screen-cast only video and no 3D animation video are allowed.
Every video, sound and image used must be GPL 3.0 or Creative Commons BY-SA. The video license will be GPL 3.0 or Creative commons BY-SA. The work will have a text file with the following information: - License - Authors - Actors - Technical staff - Score
Expected results: An ad (less that 2 minutes) promoting KDE Plasma Active.
Prerequisites: Script.
Time to complete: 2 weeks
Mentor: Jorge Salgueiro (jorge dot salgueiro at gmail dot com)
Video ad for KDE - Coming together
Description:
Use all your creativity to create an innovating short film promoting KDE. We are looking for an advertise with new ideas that communicate the spirit behind KDE.
Must verse Kde Comunity. Creativity is very important.
Your video must have a Kde feeling (lettering, imagery, etc.). Must be according to Kde quality standards.
Quality has to be at least 720p, real action, animation or stop-motion. No screen-cast only video and no 3D animation video are allowed.
Every video, sound and image used must be GPL 3.0 or Creative Commons BY-SA. The video license will be GPL 3.0 or Creative commons BY-SA. The work will have a text file with the following information: - License - Authors - Actors - Technical staff - Score
Expected results: An ad (less that 2 minutes) promoting KDE Comunity.
Prerequisites: Script.
Time to complete: 2 weeks
Mentor: Jorge Salgueiro (jorge dot salgueiro at gmail dot com)
Quality Assurance
easy
Bug triaging: searching for duplicates (approx. 20x)
Description: Many KDE bug reports need to be triaged (checked) before they can be forwarded to the developers. The task consists in selecting individual KDE projects and check the database for duplicate entries.
Expected results: have a better triaged bug database to facilitate the developer's work.
Prerequisites: Having good analytical skills, having read and understood the triaging Guide: http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad/Guide_To_BugTriaging
Time to complete:48 hours.
Mentor: [email protected], kde-bugsquad, coordination in #kde-bugs
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Research
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Training
easy
Import KWin Scripting Tutorial into KDE Examples
Description: There is one tutorial for KWin scripting written by the developer. This should be imported into a new kwin scripting module in the KDE Examples git repository.
Expected results: Existing KWin Scripting Tutorial in kde-examples repository.
Prerequisites: basic git knowledge
Time to complete: 24 hours
Mentor: [email protected]
medium
Example KWin Script
Description: An example KWin script should be implemented and added to the kde-examples repository. The script could make a window follow the active desktop, so that it is always on the active desktop but not set on all desktops. This could be useful for e.g. a chat client and is a feature provided by other window managers.
Expected results: Example KWin Script implemented
Prerequisites: JavaScript knowledge
Time to complete: 48 hours
Mentor: [email protected]
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Translation
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User Interface
easy
Port Desktop Switching OSD to QtQuick
Description: The Desktop Switching On-Screen-Display is implemented with the GraphicsView framework. For code maintainability this should be rewritten using QtQuick and the existing code should be removed.
Expected results: Desktop Switching OSD with QtQuick
Prerequisites: Basic QtQuick and JavaScript knowledge
Time to complete: 24 hours
Mentor: [email protected]
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