This page is an open list for ideas for the 2008 edition of Google Summer of Code. This page is open for new ideas from anyone.
This list is not exhaustive. It is just a collection of some ideas. To get further ideas, please feel free to use any resources and past ideas.
Before proceeding, please read the participation instructions and the notes on editing this page. They are useful for students and developers alike.
You may want to take a look at the ideas page for 2006 and 2007. Many of the ideas there are still valid today.
These ideas were contributed by our developers and users. They are sometimes vague or incomplete. If you wish to submit a proposal based on these ideas, you may wish to contact the developers and find out more about the particular suggestion you're looking at.
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The KDE core libraries (kdecore, kdeui, kio, kparts) are the most basic libraries that all KDE applications depend upon.
Solid is the KDE hardware abstraction layer, that enables KDE programs to get consistent results when running on different platforms.
Phonon is the KDE audio abstraction layer, that enables KDE programs to produce basic and medium-level multimedia functionality in any platform without platform-specific code.
KHTML is the current KDE HTML engine, used by the Konqueror web-browser and other applications to display HTML in their interfaces.
KJS is the JavaScript engine used by KHTML and Kross to run JavaScript programs.
Sonnet is the KDE grammar, spell-checker and language-detection engine.
Kross is a modular scripting framework that provides a complete framework to embed scripting interpreters like Python, Ruby and KDE JavaScript transparently into native applications to bridge the static and dynamic worlds together.
Oxygen is the KDE 4's default look-and-feel. It comprises of the Oxygen icon set (including the palette and guidelines for icons), the Oxygen sound theme, the Oxygen wallpaper collection, the Oxygen window decoration and the Oxygen widget style. Note that for Summer of Code, you must produce code, so the window decoration and widget styles are your more likely candidates.
Konqueror is KDE's powerful web browser and file manager.
Dolphin is KDE 4's default file manager application.
Konsole is KDE's terminal application.
Kate is KDE's Advanced Text Editor, both a full-featured text editor application and a KPart engine ready for embedding into other applications (like KDevelop, Quanta and Kile). KWrite is a simple text editor based on the KatePart engine and is KDE's default text editor.
Plasma is KDE 4's desktop and panel tool, replacing KDE 3's kicker and kdesktop. It's an advanced and power application with revolutionary ideas.
KWin is KDE's X11 Window Manager program, greatly improved when compared to its older brother in KDE 3.
KDM is KDE's Display Manager and login application.
KDE infrastructure tools, like Bugzilla, the Review Board, etc.
Depending on the relevance of the proposal, the KDE Project will accept student proposals on projects that are not part of KDE, but which are either KDE dependencies or relevant to KDE or the Free Software Desktop.
a named pipe or shared memory transport implementation for win32
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