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-====== Xfce - Google Summer of Code 2021 ======+~~NOTOC~~
  
-[[https://www.xfce.org|Xfce]] is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.+====== Xfce - Google Summer of Code 2024 ======
  
-[[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/|Google Summer of Code]] (GSoC) is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open source organization on a 10 week programming project during their break from school or university.+  * **[[#Communication|Communication]]** 
 +  * **[[#Project Ideas|Project Ideas]]** 
 +    * **[[#thunar|thunar]]** 
 +    * **[[#all components|all components]]** 
 +  * **[[#Frequently Asked Questions|Frequently Asked Questions]]** 
 +  * **[[#GSoC Participants Blogs|GSoC Participants Blogs]]**
  
-The Xfce project was accepted as [[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6058796058673152/|an organization]] into GSoC 2021 is looking for students to boost the project and possibly recruit new contributors and maintainers.+----
  
-If you are a developer who would like to get involved with the Xfce project, please see [[https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/dev/start|Xfce Development Information]] for additional resources.+<note important>Sadly Xfce was not accepted for GSoC 2024.</note>
  
-====== Communication ======+----
  
-Students should idle in <nowiki>IRC</nowiki> in order to stay connected with mentorsother GSoC students and xfce developers.+[[https://www.xfce.org|Xfce]] is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resourceswhile still being visually appealing and user friendly.
  
-  * [[https://matrix.to/#/#xfce-gsoc:libera.chat|our IRC channel]] to discuss Xfce GSoC related topics +[[https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/|Google Summer of Code]] (GSoC) is a global program focused on bringing more developers into open source software developmentParticipants work with an open-source organization on a 90/175/350-hour programming project during the summer.
-  * [[https://matrix.to/#/#xfce-dev:libera.chat|our IRC channel]] to follow general xfce development and to ask coding questions if the mentor is afk.+
  
-If you use [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients|native IRC client]], please make sure to run a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNC_(software)|bouncer(bnc)]] in order to receive offline messages, so that you will not miss anything. (There are some websites around which provide bouncer services free of charge for the for Libera networkThough you as well can host a bouncer yourself)+If you are developer who would like to get involved with the Xfce project, please see [[https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/dev/start|Xfce Development Information]] for additional resources.
  
-Alternatively you can use [[https://matrix.org/|Matrix]], which provides bridges to the #freenode <nowiki>IRC</nowiki> network and stores the communication. You can login via OpenID, and it makes a bouncer obsolete. To try that, just follow the links to the channels above.+**Note**Due to bot protection you need to request permission on the #xfce-dev Matrix channel to be able to fork Xfce proejcts and to open merge requests.
  
-In order to coordinate projects, students should add their names to [[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15HJNHG9RAkRLANffHvB9IqCg9oHz__oqHp2wBXU3kCQ/edit#gid=0|this google spreadsheet]] and check the sub-projects they are interested in.+----
  
-====== Project Ideas ======+====== Communication ======
  
-  * **[[#Create Sample/Skeleton plugins in all GOI supported languages|Create Sample/Skeleton plugins in all GOI supported languages]]** +Participants should idle in Matrix in order to stay connected with mentors, other GSoC participants and Xfce developers: 
-  * **[[#Improve Thunar|Improve Thunar]]** + 
-  * **[[#Wayland Support|Wayland Support]]** +  * The [[https://matrix.to/xfce-dev#/#xfce-gsoc:matrix.org|#xfce-gsoc Matrix channel]] to discuss Xfce GSoC related topics 
-  * **[[#Improve Accessibility|Improve Accessibility]]** +  * The [[https://matrix.to/xfce-dev#/#xfce-dev:matrix.org|#xfce-dev Matrix channel]] to follow general Xfce development and to ask coding questions 
-  * **[[#Create StatusNotifierItem Skeleton example]]** +  * More information about communication channels can be found [[https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/dev/start#communication_with_the_xfce_development_team|here]].
-  * **[[#Add Calendar Capabilities to Clock|Add Calendar Capabilities to Clock]]**+
  
 ---- ----
 +====== Project Ideas ======
  
-===== Create Sample/Skeleton plugins in all GOI supported languages =====+Feel free to package a number of issues to a GSoC project, for which you think, you can solve them in the given timeframe (90h / 175h / 350h, 8 till 22 weeks). Note that the issues you pick don't need to share the same mentor or be entirely from one project (some projects are pretty small and simple to understand).
  
-As we already have sample/skeleton panel plugin in [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-sample-plugin|C Language]] and good example of thunar plugin in [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/thunar-plugins/thunar-archive-plugin|C Language]], we can write the same for other languages which have support for Introspection, in that we create 2 plugins for each language,+Note: Fixing some smaller issues already now (E.gto show your programming skills) as well would be very welcome.
  
-  - A minimal skeleton which just creates hello world like plugin. +Here are some suggestions to pick from, where mentors already confirmed to support them as part of GSoC projectYou can as well check our [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/|gitlab issue tracker]] for other issues from the pojects listed below, though please make sure that there is a mentor supporting your choice!
-  - Other sample plugin in which we use most of the available APIs.+
  
-that make it's easy for everyone to understand the basic working and development of xfce4 panel and thunar plugins.+===== thunar =====
  
-  * **[Language: any from the list]** +Thunar is Xfce's file manager and one of its core componentsThere are many new features pending to be implemented and bugs that need fixingsome of which are listed belowSee [[https://wiki.xfce.org/thunar/dev/build_and_run|this wiki page]] for detailed instructions on how to build and run thunar.
-    * **Python:** Create Sample/Skeleton panel and thunar plugin in Python, Possible using [[https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html|PyGobject]] +
-    * **JavaScript:** Create Sample/Skeleton panel and thunar plugin in JavaScriptPossible using [[https://gjs.guide/guides/|Gjs]] +
-    * **Vala:** Create Sample/Skeleton panel and thunar plugin in Vala, Possible using [[https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/Bindings|vapi]]+
  
-**[Difficulty: Medium] [Required Skills: GtkGobject, GLib] [Possible Mentors: Manjeet Singh]**+  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/547|Offer Thunar specific file selection dialog via DBus Service "org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser"]] 
 +    * **[Difficulty: challenging] [Required Skills: CGtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
 +    * **[Estimate time: 175h]** 
 +    * So that all applications which want to pick a file will see the thunar dialog, instead of the foreign GtkFileChooserDialog 
 +    * Possible required to implement a service ''xdg-desktop-portal-xfce'', according to [[https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/|xdg-desktop-portal-gtk](to be checked) 
 +    Creation of the related DBUS Service in thunar 
 +    Dialog to pick specific file(s) and hit "done"/"abort" using the current thunar widgets.
  
----- +  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/693|New view "Pictures"]] 
-===== Improve Thunar =====+    * **[Difficulty: challenging] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
 +    * **[Estimate time: 175h]** 
 +    * A new view in order to maximize the space taken by thumbnails, not showing the file names anymore 
 +    * Most likely would require to introduce a new base-view, similar to [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/exo/-/blob/master/exo/exo-icon-view.c|exo-icon-view]]. That view could be added directly into the thunar codebase. 
 +    * There is already an [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/merge_requests/303|open merge request from last GSoC]], which implements the feature partly using exo-icon-view as a base ... though as such has the limitations of exo-icon-view. Nevertheless, it can be used as inspiration, and to figure out where the relevant code is located.
  
-Thunar is Xfce's file manager and one of its core componentsThere are many new features pending to be implemented and bugs that need fixingsome of which are listed below:+  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/179|Store each UCA in a separate *.desktop files instead of using a single uca.xml]] 
 +    * **[Difficulty: challenging] [Required Skills: CGtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
 +    * **[Estimate time: 175h]** 
 +    * Check how other file managers (dolphin?) handle custom actions / which formats are used. Possibly we can follow some standard. 
 +    * That would allow distros to provide preinstalled uca's in a simple way. Related[[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/merge_requests/111|!111]] (Having *.desktop files would supersede that MR) 
 +    * Precondition to [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/1028|#1028]] 
 +    * Support for reading uca.xml should be kept (For at least one thunar version) to keep backward compatibility.
  
-  * <del>[[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/123|Possibility to sort trash by delete date]]</del> 
-    * **[Difficulty: easy] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * Often when searching something in trash, the latest trashed items are of interest. 
-    * The mission here would be, to add another sorting category "delete date". That category only can be picked for "trash". 
-    * Check [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/merge_requests/29|!29]] and [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/merge_requests/59|!59]] which are about a  similar feature, "file creation date" to see which files need to be touched. 
-    * Most likely it will be required to bundle multiple [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues?label_name[]=5.%20Trash%20%2F%20Delete|trash/delete issues]] into a "improve trash/delete handling" GSoC Project to have work for 175 hours. 
-  * <del>[[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/342|"Open with" menu - Improve default application handling]]</del> 
-    * **[Difficulty: easy] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * Currently setting a default application is a bit hidden in thunar. And if not set, the last used application always will be used as default, which is bad UX (see issue description). 
-    * The idea is, to automatically select an application as default for a specific mime-type on the first open, if no default application was defined so far for that mime type. 
-    * Additionally the "open with" context menu should get an additional entry labeled "set default application". 
-    * The application chooser should highlight the current default application in some way. 
-    * Note that most likely this issue alone will not be sufficient for a 175 hour Project, you will need to bundle multiple issues. 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/257|Add Support for GTK RECENT bookmark]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: easy] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * The location "recent:/" currently is not well supported within thunar. Files inside there have a "locked" symbol and many formats cant be opened properly. 
-    * It would be nice to fix these flaws, and show the "recent" section by default if the system provides it. 
-    * Note that most likely this issue alone will not be sufficient for a 175 hour Project, you will need to bundle multiple issues. 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/418|Remember zoom level per directory]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: medium] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * Currently zoom levels are the same for each directory. However since thunar 4.16.x, several settings, like view-type and sorting order can be saved per directory. As well for the zoom level that would make a lot of sense. 
-    * The commits for the existing "per-directory-settings" could be used as a base to see how it can be accomplished. 
-    * In addition it could be interesting to select in detail which settings should be shown "per directory" instead of switching just all of them on/off. 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/245|Provide a collection of preinstalled custom actions, which can be enabled]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: medium] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * Currently the only thunar custom action which is provided by thunar is "open terminal here". (Xubuntu adds some more). To add additional custom actions from [[https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/custom-actions|the wiki]] is not very user-friendly. Thunar could be improved alot here by adding some meaningful default custom-actions, e.g. for catfish search (which now is an Xfce project), PNG/JPG conversion, rotating jpegs, creating symlinks/hardlinks, printing. 
-    * Like that we would have the possibility to provide translations for all of these UCA's 
-    * We would need the possibility enable/disable UCA's, so that we can add more "disabled by default" UCA's. That would prevent overload of the menu with UCA's which are possibly of no use for certain users. 
-    * One job here would be to modify the UCA-management dialog in order to show disabled UCA's grayed out. A checkbox inside UCA config dialog could be used to enable/disable it. Like all other UCA attributes, that attributes would need to be stored. (The commit adding support for "UCA submenus" will help to see what has to be done) 
-    * In a second step, default UCA's could be added from the [[https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/custom-actions|wiki page]] 
-    * Code in Xfdesktop, the desktop manager, would also need to be modified to handle disabled UCA's. 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/351|Introduce rate limiting to recursive build of tree-view]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: medium] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * In the past we had alot of bugs related to tree-view (sidepane) letting CPU run at 100%. The reason is, that building the file-tree is a complex procedure which has a lot of corner cases, embedded in an recursive call. Errors  during tree buildup occasionally led to infinite tree-walk, blocking a single core. 
-    * It looks like for now we found all problematic corner cases, though in order to make the related code more failsafe for further changes, it still would be nice to have a rate-limiting mechanism, using ''g_timeout_add_full'' to make sure that even in a malfunction case, a CPU will not be 100% blocked. 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/179|split uca.xml (custom action configuration) into multiple files]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: medium] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * Currently there is only a single file which stores all the user-specific custom actions 
-    * It would be much more "packager-friendly" if several files could be used for that purpose. So that distributions could easily add additional custom actions, without messing with files in the userspace. 
-    * The user would need to be able to overwrite and disable system-defined UCA's. (See as well [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/245|here]]) 
-    * Optionally the project could be extended by changing the format from ".xml" to ".desktop" files. 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues?label_name[]=5.%20Searching|Improve thunar file search facility]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: medium] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * There is a couple of open issues related to file search. According to your skill-level we could make a GSoC project out of multiple of these bugs. 
-    * E.g. the possibility to access a file-search tool, like catfish via toolbar (Possibly by using a DBus call?) 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/338|Ability to reopen last tabs/location upon restart]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: medium] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * Currently on restart only the latest used path is restored. 
-    * Like web browsers, thunar could restore all paths from the last session instead. 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues?label_name[]=5.%20Bulk%20Renamer|Improve the bulk renamer]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: medium] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * There are a number of issues filed on the thunar bulk renamer which could be packed as a GSoC project dependent on your skill-level 
-    * E.g. it is needed to properly highlight renaming conflicts, and several smaller enhancements 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/156#note_18095|Introduce gvfs trusted flag for more safety]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: medium] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]**  
-    * The execute flag currently is used to mark a launcher as "trusted". That can be easily lured, since as well via unpacking an archive, an executable flag can be imported. 
-    * The idea is to use a "trusted" flag stored as gvfs metadata, like nautilus(files?) already does. 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/160|Set custom color to specific files and folder names]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: medium] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * Like for Mac, it would be nice to have the possibility to set custom colors for file and folder names. 
-    * The chosen color could be saved as gvfs-metadata value, like done for e.g. emblems. 
-    * The property dialog of files/folders would require a color picker. 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/279|Possibility to configure shortcuts in thunar preferences via GUI]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: challenging] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * Currently in thunar it is possible to specify custom keyboard shortcuts via the accels.xml file. That is not user-friendly. 
-    * Instead, it would be nice to have a dialog which provides an overview on all thunar shortcuts and the possibility to change them. 
-    * That dialog should be implemented in libxfce4ui in a way that allows other Xfce components to reuse it. 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/262|Implement the "shared thumbnails" feature of the thumbnail spec]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: challenging] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * The freedesktop thumbnail spec described how to store and retrieve thumbnails. Thunar impements only part of the spec. The "shared thumbnail folder" part described on  [[https://specifications.freedesktop.org/thumbnail-spec/thumbnail-spec-latest.html#SHARED|freedesktop.org]] is entirely missing. 
-    * To implement the spec fully, the following things needs to be changed: 
-       * Thunar needs to check .sh_thumbnails and display thumbnails there before requesting new thumbnails to be created by tumbler 
-       * Tumbler needs only to create thumbnails if they are not already in .sh_thumbnails 
-       * For remote drives, thumbnails should also be displayed if they are in  .sh_thumbnails, even if thumbnails for remote drives are disabled 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/61|For folders, put the count of containing files into the detailed view "size" column]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: challenging] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * While it would be good to know how many files are inside a folder, that can be very resource-consuming, specially on remote locations 
-    * The linked bug contains an old WIP patch, which already worked for local files. 
-    * The mission would be, to port that patch to thunar master and make it usable for remote location / figure out how to best do so. 
-    * If that is not challenging enough for you, there is an [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/94|issue for showing recursive file size]] (as well that issue has a partly functional patch attached). 
   * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/500|Extend Thunarx API to be able to set emblems in thunar-plugins]]   * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/500|Extend Thunarx API to be able to set emblems in thunar-plugins]]
     * **[Difficulty: challenging] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]**     * **[Difficulty: challenging] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]**
-    * Several thunar plugins, like rabbit-vcs, the thunar-vcs-plugin and thunar-dropbox would profit from the possibility to set emblems on files. Though currently plugins are not able to do so.+    * **[Estimate time: 90h]** 
 +    * Several thunar plugins, like rabbit-vcs, the thunar-vcs-plugin and thunar-dropbox would profit from the possibility to set emblems on files. Though currentlyplugins are not able to do so.
     * Nautilus already seems to provide such a service. Most likely the nautilus code can be used as inspiration.     * Nautilus already seems to provide such a service. Most likely the nautilus code can be used as inspiration.
     * It would be required to extend the thunarx API (API used by thunar plugin) in order to support custom emblems.     * It would be required to extend the thunarx API (API used by thunar plugin) in order to support custom emblems.
-  * Move resources which can be shared between thunar and xfdesktop into libxfce4util/libxfce4ui 
-    * **[Difficulty: challenging] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * Both components need to do file operations, mounting and provide context menus. The related code currently is duplicated. 
-    * The idea is to move that code and it's dependencies to a shared library in order to reduce duplication, and to ease maintenance work. 
-    * There is no issue yet for that project ...feel free to open one 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/547|Offer Thunar specific file selection dialog via DBus Service "org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser"]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: challenging] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * So that all applications which want to pick a file, will see the thunar dialog, instead of the foreign GtkFileChooserDialog 
-    * Possible required to implement a service ''xdg-desktop-portal-xfce'', according to [[https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/|xdg-desktop-portal-gtk]] (to be checked) 
-    * Creation of the related DBUS Service in thunar 
-    * Dialog to pick specific file(s) and hit "done"/"abort" using the current thunar widgets. 
-  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/252|Symbolic icons for side panel]] 
-    * **[Difficulty: challenging] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Andre Miranda, Alexander Schwinn]** 
-    * So that the side panel icons are more consistent and less distracting 
-    * There is already a [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/merge_requests/32|WIP]] implementation that needs to be rebased and finished. 
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-===== Wayland Support ===== 
  
-The X11 windowing system is currently in maintenance modeas it is an aging systemand the Linux desktop ecosystem is transitioning to the Wayland display server protocolIn order to speedup the transition of Xfce's components to Waylandthey need to be tested and bugs need to be filed and fixed. [[https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap|Wayland Roadmap]]+  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/1028|Use different key-values to index Toolbar buttons]] 
 +    * **[Difficulty: medium] [Required Skills: CGtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
 +    * **[Estimate time: 50h]** (can be part of a 90/175/350h project) 
 +    * Currentlyonly the derivation from the default loading order is used to arrange toolbar buttonsThis can lead to bugs 
 +    * In the futureeither the name+subfolder of each toolbar-button (and UCA) should be used for indexing (or the path to some *.desktop file after [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/179|#179]])
  
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-===== Improve Accessibility =====+  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/499|Thunar Plugin for Nextcloud Integration]] 
 +    * **[Difficulty: medium] [Required Skills: C, Gtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
 +    * **[Estimate time: 90h]** (can be part of a 90/175/350h project) 
 +    * Implementation as Thunar Plugin, based on existing work (see issue) 
 +    * Dialog to enter credentials 
 +    * Right click menu actions for management  
 +    * Possibly emblems to show sync-status if required
  
-Investigate all Xfce applications to ensure that they are 100% accessible to screen reader and keyboard usersincluding making the [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/1|panel navigatable]]assign and fix accelerators ([[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/-/issues/64|example]]), present info to screen reader in thunar ([[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/48|bug]]), etc.+===== all components ===== 
 + 
 +  * Integration of Xfce Keyboard Shortcuts Widget into all Xfce Applications 
 +    * **[Difficulty: medium] [Required Skills: CGtk] [Possible Mentors: Alexander Schwinn]** 
 +    * **[Estimate time10-90h (Depends on the number of ported apps)]** (can be part of a 90/175/350h project) 
 +    * Currently only available for thunarxfce4-terminal and mousepad(via plugin) 
 +    * To be integrated as well into all other xfce applications which use keyboard shortcuts (TODO: Provide a list) 
 +    * See [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/-/merge_requests/121|mousepad merge request]] and [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/-/merge_requests/32|xfce4-terminal merge request]] for reference
  
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 +===== Frequently Asked Questions =====
  
-===== Create StatusNotifierItem Skeleton / example =====+=== What is the recommended format for the GSoC proposal ? === 
 +We do not force any specific format. Here is what you have to look for: 
 +  * Make sure you follow the [[https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/writing-a-proposal|official basics]] 
 +  * Draft some timeline to show in detail when you will have time to work on which exact part of your project. 
 +  * In case multiple participants will be picked, it can be beneficial to define an alternative targets to prevent overlap. 
 +  * Make sure to define some stretch targets, in case you finish your main target early
  
-We already provide a way to show [[https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/StatusNotifierItem/StatusNotifierItem/|StatusNotifierItems]] in our panel as an alternative to writing traditional pluginswhich only target XfceIn order to be able to port some of our plugins (at least where that makes sense) to the open standard it would be helpful to have a skeleton or example StatusNotifier.+=== Where can I start ? === 
 +After you have read the [[https://docs.xfce.org/contribute/dev/start|Xfce Development Information]], and specially the [[https://andreldm.com/2018/12/03/xfce-contributor-guide.html|The Ultimate Contributor's Guide to Xfce]], you can pick easy issues from the above list, or watch for issues which are labeled 'Newcomers':  
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 +  * [[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues?label_name[]=Newcomers|thunar newcomer issues]]
  
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 +==== GSoC Participants Blogs ====
  
-===== Add Calendar Capabilities to Clock =====+  * to be added
  
-The Gtk2-based [[https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/orage/start|Orage calendar panel plugin]] was deprecated in Xfce 4.16 and the Clock panel plugin has no Calendar capabilities, so a new Calendar widget would need to be rewritten in modern widgets, as the [[https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkCalendar.html|Gtk3 Calendar widget]] is a mess. The widget should be made with the intent that it can be used by other projects and should be pluggable with desktop and online calendar apps ([[https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/-/issues/449|bug report]]).\\ +---- 
-**[Required Skills: C, Gtk, Glib]**+==== Previous Years ==== 
 + 
 +  * [[projects:GSoC_2021:start|GSoC 2021]] 
 +  * [[projects:GSoC_2022:start|GSoC 2022]]
  
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