X.Org Wiki - SummerOfCodeIdeas2007

Ideas

Ideas for projects for students looking to participate in Google's Summer of Code. Please note that these are just suggestions; if you have an idea for something else please ask.

When writing a proposal, please remember to make it detailed. Include at least the information called for in "What should a student application look like?", but including milestones and a project schedule is even better. Some good guidelines are at the Google/PSU Summer of Code proposal page.

Xserver core

Move the dmx muxing code into the server to replace the existing xinerama mux code
EXA support for surfaces larger than the hardware limits
Infrastructure for direct-rendering GL windows larger than the hardware supports
Investigate redoing miarc/miwideline/etc. for smaller size and better performance
Moving the mouse handling code into a separate thread (student: TiagoVignatti, mentor: DanielStone)

Xinerama

Composite/Xinerama integration
Hotplugging additional local and remote displays
Auto enabling and disabling Xinerama screens.
Make Xinerama handle more than just X screens

Xdmx

Integrate with the rootless code a la Xdarwin and Cygwin/X, for floating window migration
Add support for Fixes/Damage/Composite
Fix input

XCB

Auto-generate server-side protocol stubs from XCB's protocol descriptions
Implement a new language binding for XCB
- Finishing the Haskell language binding would be really cool.
Implement a more complete test suite for XCB
Port Gdk and/or Qt to XCB
Port the important X utilities (xdpyinfo, xhost, etc.) to XCB
- The XCB demos include partial ports of xdpyinfo and xrandr.
- You'd have to port a lot of applications to make this an interesting Summer of Code project.
See XCBToDo and Bugzilla(XCB) for more ideas, or contact jamey@minilop.net or xcb@lists.freedesktop.org.

Drivers

Add more support for EXA in the drivers; see ExaStatus for a list.
Add dualhead support to an unsupported chip (trident, mach64, s3virge, nv, etc.)
Add basic DRI support to an unsupported chip (trident, s3virge, glint, siliconmotion, etc.)
Do some work on nouveau ; ideas include better DRI support, better Xv/XvMC support, suspend/resume support, EXA support for more ops (see our TODO page for more ideas)

Darwin (OSX)

Fix the build system
Sync with latest Apple code
New extension support
Compositing window manager to replace quartz-wm (once Composite is enabled)

Misc

Add test cases for more extensions, especially newer ones like Render, Composite, etc. (possibly to XTS5; see TestGroup wiki)
Introspection extension to support tools like xscope
- Would allow querying for request names and structures in generic fashion
- Look at xcb-proto descriptions
Integrate NX in XCB or X protocol
Create GUI or textual tool for assisted editing of XKB configuration database.
Formally documenting XKB configuration syntax and configuration database structure.

DRI

GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap
- Update to latest spec
- More efficient implementation, ideally texturing directly from offscreen pixmaps
Integrate properly with Composite, in particular, render to redirected windows correctly
Port new memory manager changes to drivers other than i915

See also: ToDo, ChangesForX11R73, DRI ideas list.