I need a Gentoo (or Linux) Project idea

froke · Last edited by froke on Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:28 am; edited 1 time in total

Hey all,

I'm in my last semester as a CS student, and I am taking a class called Senior Projects. Well, the purpose of this class is to go through the software engineering process with a project of our choice. I would like to take this opportunity to do something for the Gentoo Project, but I have no clue what needs to be done or how to find out. Any suggestions or pointers to more information are greatly appreciated. One major requirement is that it must have some sort of graphical user interface.

Thanks.
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TheChuckster · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Posts: 91

You'd be best doing something for Linux as a whole. Try writing a new graphical GTK2 IRC client.

Q-collective · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 2071

Indeed, xchat is in major need of being forked ^_^

Fanatic · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:41 am Post subject:

What's wrong with irssi?

alexleiker · Apprentice Joined: 03 Dec 2004 Posts: 190

rssi is ugly imo.
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alexleiker · Apprentice Joined: 03 Dec 2004 Posts: 190

Personally I think it would be cool to have a good looking well working irc client that is designed for people who tend to use gentoo (designed to be highly customizable and optimizable).
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rkdempsey · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 12

How about something like dvdshrink? I have yet to find any linux program that works as well and as easy as it does!

alexleiker · Apprentice Joined: 03 Dec 2004 Posts: 190

Yeah A port of DVDRebuilder or something that works just as good would be awsome.
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charlieg · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:44 am Post subject:

cherry~ · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

What I am searching for for a long time and have been unable to find is some sort of system analysis tool - the Windows world has quite a lot of them (e.g. Sisoft Sandra).

What I mean is a tool that prints out various information about your PC (CPU/harddisks/chipset/controllers/installed cards like eth, graphics card, sound etc). I know this information can be obtained via lspci and by diving into the /proc filesystem but thats just not comfortable enought.

I'm thinking about a boot disk or boot cdrom that you can throw into your pc, boot it up and that then gives you a nicely formated "system summary". Maybe the ability to save the information to a file or print it out. Wouldn't that be neat? :-)

As an additional feature it could give you advices about what options you might want to activate in a kernel configuration for this machine (as the information is mostly required for this task).
Having the output sort of standardised could also help when submitting hardware and or module related bug reports.

Don't know if such a thing is around - i've never encountered one though.

cherrry~

lovedaddy · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 58 Location: UK

Something I feel linux would benefit from, is a QT based GameSpy / All seeing eye replacement for KDE.

Probably just a frontent to qstat, and similar in function to xqf - it would have native KDE functionality, such as dcop integration for apps like Kopete (setting your away, and posting a message to certain contacts), and things like stopping music automatically in some KDE based ogg/mp3 players.

Could have a Konquerer IO slave for double clicking on links that other users of the frontend post (say to your IRC channel or from their ICQ away message).

Could also have the tray icon (so just vanishes to icon etc).

Just something I miss from my windows machine that I've never found a KDE based alternative for.

Best of luck!

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lovedaddy · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2003 Posts: 58 Location: UK

"Gamespy v2.63 offers support for
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and the BF1942: Secret Weapons demo!"

www.gamespy3d.com

They cannot even be bothered to update the windows one (instead attempt to get you buying Arcade, which IMHO is awful). Using ASE on windows at the moment, but today it has some Yahoo tag all over it, so I think thats now got limited time on my Windows machine at work too.

cherry~ · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

etnoy · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:48 pm Post subject:

You could try

tuxamd · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 281

Perhaps rather than taking such a big task as making your own application of some sort you could participant in the making of one. That would be great if you could help port over filezilla ftp client to Linux. I personally think all linux ftp clients are rubbish (or at least all that I've tried/seen, anyone got suggestions?), though filezilla is very amazing. It's open source but I think there's only one developer (pretty friendly person) and though he's working on the Linux version it's not happening that fast due to his studies (I think CS also).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/

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Lokheed · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:31 am Post subject:

tuxamd · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 281

I seriously think it's more work than he can do. I mean for something personal I could see someone dedicateting a lot of time to it, but for just a college project? Don't overwhelm yourself. It's easier said than done to make applications. Though I'm not a developer myself I know you can't just code up something good in a day. I'd say it would be more efficient if he helped improve software rather than starting from scratch. Such as the filezilla idea or a ton of others.

Correct me if I'm wrong though, I mean if you seriously want to make an application from scratch go right ahead

I just hope it will be time well spent

rhill · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 2:35 am Post subject:

MattSharp · Apprentice Joined: 15 Aug 2003 Posts: 258

I think the Filezilla idea is the best by far.

froke · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:01 am Post subject:

It is strongly suggested that we start a new project (rather than help
an existing one) because we are required to write requirements and
design the software. I know this may not be in the best interest of
open-source software, but that is not the focus of our education.
However, substantial, sort of "stand alone" additions to existing
software is allowed as long as we are able to write requirements and
design the additions.
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tuxamd · Apprentice Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 281

Hmm, in that case I'd give anything to have a DC++ clone for Linux, I'd seriously take up learning a programming language and also design a site (I do html/css and photoshop graphics) if someone were to do this. Though the currently DC++ project for linux is really going slow and looks pretty bad. And aside form that there aren't any good clients compatible with DC++ only hubs in Linux. Most hubs require you to have DC++.

dol-sen · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:44 am Post subject:

How about creating a plugin for a gentoo app? It can be something entirely created by you as well as adding to an existing app. There are many apps in gentoo that accept plugins. Another advantage is it could be something small enough to do in a relatively small amount of time.

Porthole has a new plugin interface (by another student) for extending it's capabilities and will be in the next release. (just in case you have an idea about a possible plugin) :wink:

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