Google Code In 2014

This is the project page for the Sugar Labs application to Google Code In 2014. Sugar Labs community members: please feel free to add tasks below. We'll do an edit before final applications are due in late Oct 2014.

Message to potential participants

It is important that you obtain permission of your parents.

Es importante que obtengas el permiso de tus padres para participar.

http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2014/help_page#eligible

Please see the Contest Rules for Eligibility and Registration process.

http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2014/terms_and_conditions

Details regarding the required forms and paperwork are here: Google Code In 2014/Participate#Students.

Also, you will likely need to set up the Sugar development environment. See http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html for details. Further information about contributing to the project can be found here: http://developer.sugarlabs.org/

Please don't hesitate to ask questions on our irc channel (#sugar on irc.freenode.net) or on the sugar-devel list: sugar-devel AT lists.sugarlabs DOT org

Why we are participating

Sugar is written and maintained by volunteers, who range from seasoned professionals to children as young as 12-years of age. Children who have grown up with Sugar have transitioned from Sugar users to Sugar App developers to Sugar maintainers. They hang out on IRC with the global Sugar developer community and are full-fledged members of the Sugar development team. It is this latter group of children we hope will participate in and benefit from Google Code-in. Specifically we want to re-enforce the message that Sugar belongs to its users and that they have both ownership and the responsibility that ownership implies. Just as learning is not something done to you, but something you do, learning with Sugar ultimately means participating in the Sugar development process. At Sugar Labs, we are trying to bring the culture of Free Software into the culture of school. So the Code-in is not just an opportunity for us to get some tasks accomplished, it is quintessential to our overall mission.

Tasks

Note: This is our preliminary list of tasks. We can add more as the contest progresses.

Mentors: please feel free to add more tasks and/or add yourself as a potential mentor to an existing task.

Tasks must fall within one of these five categories: #Documentation/Training; #Outreach/Research; #User Interface; #Quality Assurance; and #Code.

Documentation/Training

Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more

Title	Description	Hours	Mentor	Tag

Outreach/Research

Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions

Title	Description	Hours	Mentor	Tag

User Interface

Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction

Title	Description	Hours	Mentor	Tag

Quality Assurance

Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality.

Title	Description	Hours	Mentor	Tag

Code

Tasks related to writing or refactoring code

Title	Description	Hours	Mentor	Tag
Sharing Palette Highlight Bug	GTK3 Sharing Palette does not highlight the current selected option. The palette should highlight the icon of the selected option. This worked fine in GTK2. You can test with Chat (gtk2) and Browse (gtk3). Ticket: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4467 Relevant code: gtk3 themes at github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-artwork	48	Bug, Sugar, GTK, Theme	UI, Code
Magic Tool For Paint	The kids want the magic tools from TuxPaint in the sugar Paint activity. The teachers in Uruguay say the kids like the magic tools from TuxPaint. Ticket: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2838 Relevant code: https://github.com/godiard/paint-activity	72	Feature, Magic, Paint, Activity	Code
Use XO Game Keys For Stopwatch	Stopwatch must use the game keys! Icons in the buttons in the screen suggest the game buttons can be used to start/stop/reset the counters, but do not work. Probably the problem is the activity have many counters, and can't know what counter relate to the buttons. Ticket: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2976 Relevant Code: http://git.sugarlabs.org/stopwatch	48	Feature, Activity, Stopwatch, XO-Required	Code, UI
Clear Browse Cache on Crash	Browse cache can bloat up with time consuming valuable space on the laptop. On one laptop me and tch checked, there were 400MB of unaccessible files (mostly multimedia) in the Browse instance folder. We need a procedure to clean instance/ when starting browse (needs to check it is the only instance to avoid corner case of more than one browse instance). Another option is to check the date of partial files... Ticket: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2659#comment:6 Relevant code: https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity	48	Browse, Activity, Bug, Cache	Code
On Screen keyboard Covers Terminal	On terminal activity, the OSK is covering the text entry area. This means that they cannot be used in tablet (full-touch) mode, meaning that they cannot meet Objective #2487. Ticket: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4542 Relevant code: https://github.com/godiard/terminal-activity	48	Terminal, Bug, OSK, Touch, XO-Required, Activity	Code, UI
Pippy does not load example if no tabs present	Steps: open pippy, close all tabs, open an example (any), nothing will happen and is confusing, the log shows an ugly error. Ticket: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4782 Relevant code: https://github.com/walterbender/Pippy	48	Pippy, Bug, Activity	Code

Sugar bugs from bugs.sugarlabs.org

Each of these open tickets is potential task-worthy.

Ticket	Description	Type	Component
4307	clipboard.set_with_data/set_with_owner is not introspectable	defect	Sugar
1549	Collaboration faults when resuming and then stopping a shared activity before connections are sucessfull	defect	Sugar
2195	Control panel, timezone incorrectly calculated	defect	Sugar
3326	Telepathy signals connected twice when connecting to jabber	defect	Sugar
3833	Palettes on the bottom of screen don't appear after rotation to portrait mode	defect	Sugar
3921	Journal palette is not updated when I stay in the same column	defect	Sugar
4166	Long press timeout 'feels' longer than 0.5 seconds	defect	Sugar
4330	Journal: start editing unwanted entry	defect	Sugar
4343	Journal:Timeout to get the palette 'feels' really long	defect	Sugar
4461	"Volume busy" dialog appear in Sugar	defect	Sugar
4613	Neighborhood view should respect max_participants limit	defect	Sugar
4709	MenuItem at times do not trigger activate signal	defect	Sugar
4743	missing AU translations	defect	Sugar
305	Checkbox/Radio button outline on black panel disappears in mouseover selection highlight	defect	Sugar
362	can't register with multiple school servers	enhancement	Sugar
381	Neighbourhood view icons should be placed in a spatially repeatable way	enhancement	Sugar
806	Activities list view is very similar to Journal view and users delete activities instead of journal entries	enhancement	Sugar
933	Neighbourhood shared Activity title re-named by someone else re-joining	defect	Sugar
1051	loads of get_file() invocations and short-lived file paths during activity installation	defect	Sugar
1181	Registration should be async	defect	Sugar
1429	Home view object's long titles aren't formated like everywhere else	defect	Sugar
1442	Reject activity bundles which require a newer version of Sugar	accepted	enhancement	Sugar
1490	home screen: "start new" behaviour not reset if non-<alt> modifier active while releasing <alt>	defect	Sugar
1561	Most activities and Sugar itself chokes if the type of metadata returned is different from the expected one	defect	Sugar
1646	No way to force-close (kill) an activity	enhancement	Sugar
1936	sugar.datastore.datastore.find() breaks for large data stores	defect	Sugar
2355	Neighborhood shows Jabber account id (hex_number@server.domain) instead of nick name	defect	Sugar
2478	Buttons unresponsive when launching Sugar until Journal appears on Home View	defect	Sugar
2503	View-source does not close when activity closes	defect	Sugar
2525	Wrong query specification for datastore.find()	defect	Sugar
2570	gdk window obscured events don't always happen	defect	Sugar
2702	"Invite to <activity>" shown even for activities that don't support sharing	defect	Sugar
2818	New/upgraded activities are added to Favourites View	defect	Sugar
2822	Software Update selects new activities by default	defect	Sugar
2957	handle lack of ALIASING and SIMPLE_PRESENCE	defect	Sugar
2962	Rerigister on jabber server	defect	Sugar
2963	Sugar telepathy code does not take into account presence status of buddies	defect	Sugar
2967	Disable telepathy plugins on sugar shell level	defect	Sugar
2978	Remove hierachy-changed signal handlers when not needed	defect	Sugar
2982	Reconnect to jabber server in CP even if it was not changed	defect	Sugar
2992	GSM palette 1 hour off	defect	Sugar
3006	Ad-hoc network icon mixup	defect	Sugar
3118	presence: shell is not notified when we quit Sugar	defect	Sugar
3119	traceback after Sugar startup	defect	Sugar
3143	remove icon-slicer dependency	enhancement	Sugar
3146	Dragging a Journal entry drags the whole white entry bar, not just the icon	defect	Sugar
3147	Hovering Home list view un-favorited star provides confusing feedback	defect	Sugar
3172	traceback when associating to a new schoolserver	defect	Sugar
3432	Your Journal is full screen displayed badly	defect	Sugar
3433	Can't launch activities when disk is full	defect	Sugar
3450	Activity.__init__(..., create_jobject=False) broken	defect	Sugar
3601	Reword "Create a connection in the control panel.", to use My Settings	defect	Sugar
3646	Palette dissapears after some clicks	defect	Sugar
3708	Sugar doesn't DHCP connecting to ad-hoc wifi point	defect	Sugar
3748	Presence not updated, when client disconencts from telepathy-salut	defect	Sugar
3796	sugar-toolkit-gtk3: Drag and drop in color button	defect	Sugar
3831	Frame: animation has regressed	defect	Sugar
3930	Sidebar clipboard content tooltip should render Unicode/HTML escapes safely (with no active links, etc.)	defect	Sugar
3953	Sugar hover menus take a long time to appear on XO-1	defect	Sugar
3974	Buttons: theme 'active' state correctly	defect	Sugar
3996	Show frame or OSK, never both	defect	Sugar
4000	Views: when Palette is up you can not switch views	defect	Sugar
4015	Touch: make take screenshot available	enhancement	Sugar
4016	Touch: change brightness and mode	enhancement	Sugar
4023	Touch: Copy/paste palette for touch text selection	defect	Sugar
4027	Sugar does not autoconfigure USB Ethernet network adapter	defect	Sugar
4047	Journal should display specific icons for .xo and .xol bundles	defect	Sugar
4058	GtkPaned can't be adjusted in touchscreen	defect	Sugar
4060	Bad behaviour of gestures inside a ScrolledWindow	defect	Sugar
4069	Browse: OSK not displayed in password entries	defect	Sugar
4090	Style arrows	defect	Sugar
4133	Gtk: some widgets do receive a GDK_CROSSING_UNGRAB leave event when tapped	defect	Sugar
4134	Canvas auto panning based on input focus	defect	Sugar
4150	Applications need to detect/adapt to OSK height when OSK height can vary	defect	Sugar
4181	Research how should we use get_preferred_size	defect	Sugar
4227	Touch long-press on a menu entry in a palette dismisses the palette with no action	defect	Sugar
4238	Sliders hard to handle with touch	defect	Sugar
4247	OSK over 'clear search' button	defect	Sugar
4301	Frame: revisit buttons	defect	Sugar
4310	Sometimes the frame gesture stops working	defect	Sugar
4314	Frame Transfer tool button does not respond to touch	defect	Sugar
4318	Frame clippings palette needs GTK3 theme updates	defect	Sugar
4322	Modem palette data counters stuck at 0	defect	Sugar
4329	Language CP module 2nd choice language can trigger right to left Sugar layout	defect	Sugar
4339	Journal model: traceback	defect	Sugar
4358	Inactive next button on naming screen has no arrow	defect	Sugar
4387	Style text handles context palette	enhancement	Sugar
4397	Fix ViewSource layout	defect	Sugar
4445	Fix vertical-portrait layout of some CP sections	defect	Sugar
4449	"Spanish" and other language names are not translated in My Settings language section	defect	Sugar
4452	Partner icon does not appear in the frame	defect	Sugar
4454	Error at exit activity after participate in collaboration	defect	Sugar
4456	Bad activity name escaping in Network view	defect	Sugar
4458	Can't reconnect to a shared activity	defect	Sugar
4463	Collaboration palette can't be opened after press F1	defect	Sugar
4467	GTK3: Sharing Palette does not highlight the current selected option	defect	Sugar
4497	Html activity segfault on exit	defect	Sugar
4547	OSK doesn't appeares when switched to tablet mode from laptop mode	defect	Sugar
4581	Shift key on OSK looks the same in all modes	enhancement	Sugar
4623	improve packaging of activities that rely on system level libraries	enhancement	Sugar
4628	Sugar: need ui to connect to hidden networks	enhancement	Sugar
4646	Browse sometimes does not display text if scrolled by touchscreen	defect	Sugar
4671	Add voice recognition	enhancement	Sugar
4690	Journal: Palettes at the bottom of the list should reveal upwards	defect	Sugar
4692	Journal: Alt+1 doesn't take screenshot if objects palette is opened	defect	Sugar
4693	Send to friend not working	defect	Sugar
4717	Error trying to open object palette in the journal	defect	Sugar
4723	Activity launches even when pointer click is released outside of icon region	defect	Sugar
4729	convert to new style gobject signal format	task	Sugar
4736	Can't find volume when external device remove	defect	Sugar
4739	Errors when _Account._connection is lost	defect	Sugar
4742	Use localed to set language in control panel	defect	Sugar
4744	Sugar displays all languages including ones with no such translations.	defect	Sugar
4756	Maximum Activities notification doesn't display	defect	Sugar
4761	Tamtam activities fail to start in sugar0.100 running from sugar on a stick 10 installed on hard disk.	defect	Sugar
4768	We should drop Palettes with Gtk.Menu implementation	enhancement	Sugar
4793	journal entry palette is hidden on release of long press	defect	Sugar
618 jabber server name activated without user confirmation	defect	Sugar
634	Dropdown panel highlight confusing on 'Encryption Type:' of 'Wireless Key Required' dialog	defect	Sugar
1022	neighborhood view: new, matching AP not highlighted when view is filtered	defect	Sugar
1151	connect to gabble immediately after registration	defect	Sugar
1305	gtk.Image().set_from_icon_name() provides incorrectly scaled icon image	defect	Sugar
1393	journal entry without a file is offered for transfer	defect	Sugar
1624	gsm-client goes to infinite loop	defect	Sugar
1674	change of encryption requirement on an access point prevents network connection	defect	Sugar
1677	Speaker device not updated on external state changes	defect	Sugar
1743	group view showing same activity multiple times	defect	Sugar
1833	Journal: Preserve object title while copying ds object to clipboard	defect	Sugar
1843	Journal accesses USB devices on scrolling	enhancement	Sugar
1882	cannot connect to wireless network after restarting NetworkManager	defect	Sugar
1976	School server registration works differently on XO	defect	Sugar
2016	My Settings on top lost focus with popup	defect	Sugar
2116	Keeping a text clipping, the copying to USB, ends up with a .doc extension	defect	Sugar
2169	creating a DS entry is being done synchronously	defect	Sugar
2267	Do we get the right file extension with mime.get_primary_extension(mime_type) ?	defect	Sugar
2306	should not try to connect to a jabber server if no server is set in the control panel	defect	Sugar
2308	shell listens unnecessarily for NameOwnerChanged signals	defect	Sugar
2319	Resuming large file from external media doesn't work because of dbus timeout	defect	Sugar
2360	ActivityButton doesn't get garbage collected	defect	Sugar
2958	Journal refresh with large number of entries may steal focus	defect	Sugar
2964	Race condition while buddy initiation	defect	Sugar
2974	Resuming journal entries may cause Sugar to falsely report failed activity launch	defect	Sugar
3043	The first time, the network device icon in the frame is a gray circle	defect	Sugar
3093	Time Zone reboot warning can be bypassed with a "cancelled" yet accepted change	defect	Sugar
3138	Regression in startup animation when you resume from Journal	defect	Sugar
3169	traces about not eing able to update a buddy	defect	Sugar
3170	Sometimes the device icon in the frame and the icon in the neighborhood view are out of sync	defect	Sugar
3204	Set the Sugar cursor in a non racy way	defect	Sugar
3309	Journal: .doc file (type:application/msword) uses a data icon instead of a text icon	defect	Sugar
3316	Wireless Modem error refers to Control Panel (not My Settings)	defect	Sugar
3345	Detect speech libraries	defect	Sugar
3378	When opening downloaded pdf in Read activity pulser not displayed correctly	defect	Sugar
3544	Home random view: It shouldn't be possible to drag & drop icons over the XO character	defect	Sugar
3600	cat process created by sugar-datastore not reaped if it is killed	defect	Sugar
3635	Activity icon in menu bar may jump in position when exiting activity	defect	Sugar
3812	Journal detail view, text below the preview image can enlarge left column	accepted	defect	Sugar
4098	FavoritesView: icon offset	defect	Sugar
4140	It is possible to start Activities before the Journal is loaded	defect	Sugar
4204	Journal detail view: Text selection handlers are shown while the Activity is loading	defect	Sugar
4205	Icon below buddy on Home View shows a closed activity	defect	Sugar
4229	Gamepad down arrow show and hide the OSK	defect	Sugar
4261	No OSK in first boot, ebook mode	defect	Sugar
4286	Traceback when drag and drop icons on random layout	defect	Sugar
4287	Bad volume saving behaviour when no sound device is found	defect	Sugar
4393	WEP connections created in Sugar always use open authentication	defect	Sugar
4412	Black drags in Browse/Wikipedia	defect	Sugar
4437	Transfer palette not updating progress bar	defect	Sugar
4575	OSK doesn't work in Date & Time CP applet search field	defect	Sugar
4683	Active activity should move to first place in the list in the frame	defect	Sugar
4722	sugar-install-bundle: fails to update activity list view after activity upgrade	defect	Sugar
1471	Send a file to more than one person at a time	enhancement	Sugar
2105	add a screensaver to Sugar	enhancement	Sugar
2264	Network, forget, or remove as favourite	enhancement	Sugar
2416	provide framework code for releasing resources while hidden	enhancement	Sugar
2433	class Activity should setlocale	enhancement	Sugar
2473	transfer entire data store entry, including arbitrary metadata	enhancement	Sugar
2480	Journal file actions need progress/busy indication	enhancement	Sugar
2869	Radio/wireless control should interact with rfkill	enhancement	Sugar
3026	Time filter only cuts off the end of the list instead of offering disjunct time spans	enhancement	Sugar
3028	Add modifier to take screenshot only with the canvas	enhancement	Sugar
3209	Journal should support display of activity-specific badges	enhancement	Sugar
3412	Use gtk_accelerator_parse() instead of egg for key handling	enhancement	Sugar
3627	Installing an activity should show progress information	enhancement	Sugar
3672	duplicate function in view source needs progress bar	enhancement	Sugar
3826	Get supported audio and video mime types from gstreamer	enhancement	Sugar
3829	Allow Sugar users to adjust clock time and date	enhancement	Sugar
3856	Add other folders to Journal	enhancement	Sugar
3876	Sugar needs method to force wifi network rescan	enhancement	Sugar
3877	Sugar needs method to force Buddy/Shared Activities Network view update	enhancement	Sugar
3962	GTK3 treeview root item styled with rounded corners	defect	Sugar
4257	Toolbar overflow button: add a better looking arrow	enhancement	Sugar
4273	View Source: provide feedback for non text files	enhancement	Sugar
4327	Language CP module displays combo text in 2nd preferred language	enhancement	Sugar
4398	Toolkit: add MessageBox	enhancement	Sugar
4483	Clipboard regression in 13.2.0 images: set_with_data	defect	Sugar
4614	sugar: implement preview on clipboard button for images	enhancement	Sugar
4660	Keyboard shortcuts missing	enhancement	Sugar
4675	Allow the user to select custom image for background with a button	enhancement	Sugar
4681	Show icon indicating volume and brightness levels when corresponding button is pressed	enhancement	Sugar
4702	File transfer does not show progress or completion	enhancement	Sugar
4780	CPU usage goes up significantly after The Frame UI is accessed	defect	Sugar
4781	please support upower >= 0.99	defect	Sugar
4783	Sugar fails to install on Raspberry Pi (ARM6 - PiDora)	defect	Sugar
4784	missing countries and providers data on 3G configuration	defect	Sugar
4785	Browse-156 segfault on Fedora 18	defect	Sugar
4787	Screen does not redraw till the mouse is moved	defect	Sugar
4789	Collaboration does not work in SoaS f21-Alpha-RC1	defect	Sugar
4791	Journal:wrong icon on external device	defect	Sugar
4792	Journal: device palette position is wrong	defect	Sugar

Mentors

NOTES TO MENTORS

Please refer to Google Code In 2014/Participate#Mentors for details regarding enrolling as a mentor.

Please add yourself to the list below.

Feel free to add new tasks to the table above.

Depending on the project, we will assign multiple mentors from our various development and support teams.

• Walter Bender - also org admin for GCI