[MonoDevelop] Ideas for GSOC

[Lluis Sanchez Gual]

El dt 23 de 03 de 2010 a les 17:37 +0100, en/na krzysztof marecki va
escriure:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> 
> I am seasoned C# developer with couple years experience, recently
> helping develop Pinta.
> 
> I would like to participate in GSOC. Before I start investigate
> implementation details
> 
> needed for GSOC application process, i need some guidance, which idea
> is more
> 
> worthy to pursuit. My goal is to improve MonoDevelop usability and
> productivity 
> 
> needed for writing native Gtk applications.
> 
> 
> I have two proposals :
> 
>       * I was thinking about working on Stetic. On projects page there
>         are couple tasks which can be
>         
>         combined into one (1-widget per file, lightweight project
>         model, improvements for generating
>         
>         partial files). Besides them I would try to implement some
>         enhancements needed for using
>         
>         custom widgets. Maybe support for custom designers and editing
>         non simple widget properties. 
>         
>         
>       * Currently, there is lack of reporting tool for Gtk. I've
>         played a bit with http://www.fyireporting.com/ 
>         
>          which is open source C# implementation of Microsoft RDL. It
>         is using Apache2 license 
>         
>          and has good separation between platform independent core and
>         various
>         
>          viewers (PDF, Html etc.)  Its engine is well written and
>         capable of rendering many reports 
>         
>          designed in  Sql Business Intelligence Studio.
>         
>          Under linux it is using windows forms for its viewer and
>         designer tool. I would like to 
>         
>          implement them natively using Gtk with cairo. Ideally,
>         designer could be implemented as 
>         
>          Monodevelop addin. 
>         
>         
> 
> I am myself leaning towards working on Stetic because it could be
> beneficiary for more people,
> 
> but don't know if that kind of project is feasible for GSOC.

A Stetic project would probably benefit more people. However, a proposal
to work on Stetic needs to be a really good proposal to have chances to
be accepted. The gtk# designer is a core feature of MD, so we'll be
expecting a high quality result.

Lluis.