2012/3/25 Buddhike Kurera <bckurera at fedoraproject.org>: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Leif Middelschulte > <leif.middelschulte at 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. > > -- > Regards, > Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera) > Fedora Ambassador - APAC region > Event Liaison - Design Team > > Email: bckurera at fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera -- Leif
