2012/3/25 Buddhike Kurera <bckurera(a)fedoraproject.org>:
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Leif Middelschulte
<leif.middelschulte(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
>
> I'd like to porpose to work on the enhancement of the e17 desktop
> shell, to improve the user interface experience of people with low
> power systems like tablets. Why e17? Read below.
>
> Fedora already provides und supports two heavy weight desktop
> environments (GNOME and KDE) and two lightweight ones (XFCE and LXDM).
>
> E17 is a lightweight, yet very configurable and featurerich desktop
> shell for X window systems built upon the Enlightenment Foundation
> Libraries. These libraries are highly optimized for usage in resource
> restricted environments, as their usage as e.g. UI kit in Tizen
> prooves.
>
> Supporting my work on e17 will directly improve the user interface
> experience of fedora users who only have access to machines with
> limited ressource such as:
> - Tablets
> - Old Devices
>
> Due to it's efficiency it reduces the time to (desktop) usage
> significantly, which improves the fedora experience on every other
> machine too.
>
> Subproject ideas:
> - Advanced RandRR configuration (like monitor profile assignments to
> put e.g. Impress fullscreen windows on "projectors")
> - Improved tablet user interface customization (e17 supports so-called profiles)
> - connman support improvement (support WPA-EAP)
> - Improved notification center
> - libcanberra support
> - Configuration dialogs in general
> - Themeconverter for other window manager themes
>
> Last, but not least I think that the cooperation of fedora with the
> enlightenment project is a good opportunity for both to promote the
> usage of desktop distributions on tablets.
>
> Please let me know if you need any further information.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Leif
Hello Leif,
Hello Buddhike,
thanks for your quick response.
Thanks for the idea. I have one question, who is the mentor for this idea?
Or are you seeking a mentor?
As it would be a joint effort of Fedora and the
Enlightenment Project,
I'd try to recruit one of the more "elder" Enlightenment developers,
who already have mentored on GSoC, to mentor this idea.
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Regards,
Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera)
Fedora Ambassador - APAC region
Event Liaison - Design Team
Email: bckurera@fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera
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Leif