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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: Google summer of code
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2008-03-28 13:11:13
Message-ID: 200803281411.14076.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Thursday 27 of March 2008, Alex Dănilă wrote:
> 	Hi,
> Good to hear this is the place to talk about kwin and SoC.
> I am interested in taking the project, and the actual question is about the
> competencies needed for these two tasks.

 Note that they are just ideas. You can submit any proposal you want, even 
your own ideas. Also, the techbase page is a wiki and I actually have no idea 
who has entered those two items there.

> I know C++, have a good 
> understanding of algorithms and I am familiar with Qt4, but I don't know
> how deep understanding of X11 is needed for the multipointer functionality,

 Me neither, but I except not much. Presumably the X11 functionality provides 
API to access it and the work necessary would be to adjust KWin internals to 
handle the case of multiple pointers.

> and never wrote more than 5 lines of code using OpenGL.

 Some of KWin's effects don't require any OpenGL at all, although such things 
would be rather unlikely to be enough as SoC jobs. I expect that e.g. 
implementing the cube would require an extensive amount of work on KWin's 
code for window transformations (not probably not that much OpenGL knowledge, 
but still).

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