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KDE Accepted To Google Summer of Code 2015

Posted by timothy on from the making-things-better dept.

jrepin writes The KDE student programs team is happy to announce that KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2015. This will allow students from around the world to work with mentors on KDE software projects. Successful students will receive stipends from Google. Ideas on what a student entering Google Summer of Code 2015 with KDE might work on are listed on the Community Wiki.

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  1. WOW! by Grindalf · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh man! That's awesome!

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  2. KDE and GSoC by Peter+H.S. · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are several very good projects on the Wiki page. My favourites are probably:

    Project: Port Amarok to Qt5/Kf5/Plasma5: Something I use every day.

    Project: Port KSystemLog to use journald as a backend: With systemd it is actually possible to make a distro agnostic GUI log viewer that isn't just a "less" with windows decorations. I like using the CLI "journalctl", but a GUI, perhaps with some log watch support and real time panel notifications about "syslog level: Error" events and above would be nice.

    Project: Implement PDF Poppler features: I like Okular very much, so more features like linearized pdf support would be nice.

    1. Re:KDE and GSoC by Grishnakh · · Score: 2

      Your comment here is entirely out-of-place. Look around: yours is only one of two which isn't a troll.

      This site has really, completely gone down the tubes, and this article really shows it more than ever before.

  3. Re:No thanks. by Wootery · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh come on. Slashdot deserves better trolling than this.

  4. Re:The Summer of Systemd by Wootery · · Score: 2

    I can't speak on behalf of KDE, but: it's not likely. It's lacking that vital 'k'.

    Throw together a C++ wrapper whose name kontains a 'k', and maybe it'll happen.

  5. Re:Relevance to Systemd? by armanox · · Score: 2

    Forget systemd - KDE is a common desktop choice on AIX and FreeBSD. The fact that it is much more Unix friendly then GNOME is a talking point in and of itself.

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  6. Plasma 5 is awesome by sayfawa · · Score: 2

    Only slightly on-topic, but I've been using KDE plasma 5 since 5.2 came out. And it's great. I was a refugee escaping from Gnome 3 who went to XFCE for a few years. But that never completely satisfied me.

    But KDE does now. Which is funny, because in the days of Gnome 2, I really didn't like KDE.

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