Linked by David Adams on Sat 17th May 2008 03:33 UTC, submitted by pas de calais
Andrew Min gives a taster of the open source goodies being developed at Google's Summer of Code: a GUI for Aptitude, a GUI for Grub 2, search based menu browsing for GIMP and Audacity file import/export with FFmpeg amongst others. Read (or listen to) to the full article at Freesoftware Magazine
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A GUI for aptitude? What for? Aptitude rocks because it's way faster than synaptic. I certainly wouldn't bother with it if it had a slow UI. I don't see what advantage it would have over Synaptic at that point.
For VLC on WinCE... I wonder if they will look at Qt. Since the new VLC interface is done in Qt, and Qt runs on WinCE, it would seem to make sense. Same with VLC on Maemo. Makes sense to share as much code as possible.
Theme support for Pidgin... Hmm. I think this is a bad idea personally. Theming does not belong in individual apps for the most part. Unless you have a very specialized app, it should be using standard widgets. Otherwise theme the whole environment.
Also the cube effect for kwin doesn't seem like a summer's worth of work. Many of the other effects are very small.
Otherwise looks cool. I did SoC the first year it was offered, and it was great, teaching me lots.