So while others are able to branch off into Gnome 2.9 I am stuck closing bugs and getting FC3 into shape. Not that it is all bad but there are so many things I want to try and get in for 2.9. In no perticular order here is a list of things I want to work on, help out with or get others to work on:

  • DBus Policy Manager - a root and session daemon that allows hal to run unprivileged and takes over callout duties while extending them to dbus services such as replacing the g-v-m daemon with a set of callout scripts. The idea is to be able to construct dynamic policy without having to create a new daemon for each policy domain.
  • Gnome-VFS one-to-many (disks to volumes) patch - Most of this is already in Gnome-VFS already. There were a lot of interactions that needed to be addressed with too little time left for the final patch to go in. The final patch hooked up HAL to take advantage of one-to-many. What is needed here is a sane interface to the “Computers” v-folder to represent a drive with multipule volumes that is unmounted and a sane interface to represent when those three folders are mounted. It was kind of wierd to click on one icon and have it be replaced by three.
  • Dphoto - a DBus daemon that marshles access to the gphoto library so multipule programs can access one device at the same time. Desrt, the creator of this project, has been doing some great hacking on this and there is already a gnome-vfs module to utilize it. I need to find a CVS home for it soon but I have been swamped with other things
  • Scanner tools - We got photos, mass storage and for the most part printers. Scanners are next on my hitlist.
  • Porting the printer detection and configuration tools and getting them upstream - due to time constraints I decided to go with doing callouts to printconf-tui, a Red Hat specific printer configuration tool used by Kudzu. I would like to either strip out the python code that does the detection and setting up of PPD files or port it to C so it is more upstreamable.

One of the things I would like to see in the 2.10 or 2.12 timeframe is a standardised metadata system. Right now we have emblems but it would be nice to also have non-visible categorizartion on par with Epiphanies bookmark system or even name value pair metadata (i.e. location=”Boston, MA”). I am thinking mostly for photos right now and what I envision is the ability to categorize photos from Nautilus or an image viewer, drag them to gnome-blog and have gnome-blog pick up the metadata and pass it to WordPress. In WordPress you would be able to create a page and select the categories to be displayed. Bam, instant photo album of your trip to whereever. So you could post your photos to your blog but not have to have a perminant link to the blog entry for people to view it. Also would be nice to be able to post pictures from gnome-blog without having them show up in your blog but only in the gallery view.

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