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 |
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Outreach/Research
Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions
| Title | Description | Hours | Mentor | Tag |
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User Interface
Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction
| Title | Description | Hours | Mentor | Tag |
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Quality Assurance
Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality.
| Title | Description | Hours | Mentor | Tag |
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Code
Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
| Title | Description | Hours | Mentor | Tag |
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| 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