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| This project aims to help us developer better apps for our users by understanding their needs and preferences better. We want you to develop a few components: | This project aims to help us developer better apps for our users by understanding their needs and preferences better. We want you to develop a few components: | ||
| - | 1. A dialog to ask for user consent and store their reply, and negotiates a unique, random ID following a specific pattern for the user (for spam protection) | + | - A dialog to ask for user consent and store their reply, and negotiates a unique, random ID following a specific pattern for the user (for spam protection) |
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| - | 2. A client application that, when launched, looks up the Xfconf settings of the user (and a few things like locale, | + | - A patch for Xfce4' |
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| - | 3. A server application that waits for new clients to negotiate IDs with, and that waits for existing clients to send their settings file every month; that stores these files and provides an authenticated interface for Xfce developers to access them | + | - Optional: build hooks in the Whisker menu, Thunar and Appfinder to help us identify how people start new applications, |
| **Skills required:** | **Skills required:** | ||