Re: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Google Summer of Code 2013

[Lundberg, Johannes]

While we're discussing lower level graphics API I would like to ask one more thing.

What would it take to run GNUstep on DirectFB instead of X? Is this possible at this time?

Johannes Lundberg
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> wrote:

Thank you!

All assistance will be greatly appreciated.

On 24. 4. 2013., at 23:56, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:

I thought again and I may be able to stand in as a backup mentor for your project. Not the main mentor, joining in later this summer to help out. I will try to register as a mentor, but you will still need an official mentor. Apart for the usual candidates as Richard and Greg I would like to suggest Eric and Niels. They both were excellent students at the GSoC themselves and would be able to pass on that experience to other students. And they are highly knowledgeable in the area.

Fred

On 24.04.2013 13:44, Ivan Vučica wrote:

First, thanks everyone for support and ideas!

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Ivan

I had long ago decided that I wont mentor for GSoC this year, but your
mail led me to rethink that position. Your proposal is very convincing and
would be highly beneficial for GNUstep. ...

Sorry, but I wont be able to step in here. Hopefully somebody else in the
GNUstep community will.

Thanks!

Best wishes and hope to see you in Cambridge,

Ditto!

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 9:31 AM, David Chisnall <address@hidden> wrote:

On 22 Apr 2013, at 21:43, Ivan Vučica <address@hidden> wrote:

Ping! Student registrations have started. Any prospective mentors?

I've registered as a mentor.  I'd also be most interested in the back end
being refactored to support using Opal.

Based on feedback everyone gave, yes, the importance of this (and the
importance of integration with Core Animation) seems to be the consensus.

Currently, basic idea that I have is to copy the entire Cairo backend (or
maybe use derived classes, although long-term that seems a bad idea) and
ensure that every Cairo surface is instead backed with an Opal context. I'd
temporarily expose the Cairo surface from the Opal context, and ensure that
calls are directed to the Cairo surface backing the Opal context instead of
to the Cairo surface inside the backend.

Then, I'd be removing the Cairo surface from the backend and replacing
Cairo calls with Opal calls.

Finally, I would be continuously looking at options for integrating Core
Animation with AppKit (based on feedback).

I'll probably need more supervision compared to implementation of UIKit,
but this is definitely a more useful long-term project for GNUstep.

I'll put together a proposal, register it on GSoC's Melange, and also send
it to the mailing list.

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