== 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 "[[http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=60306&topic=10727|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 [[http://summer.cs.pdx.edu/propose|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
 * [[http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/MovingMouseHandlingCode|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 [[http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xcb;a=tree;f=xcb-demo|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 [[http://xcb.freedesktop.org/wiki/XCBToDo|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, [[https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5190|nv]], etc.)
   * Add basic DRI support to an unsupported chip (trident, s3virge, glint, siliconmotion, etc.)
   * Do some work on [[http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/|nouveau]] ; ideas include better DRI support, better Xv/XvMC support, suspend/resume support, EXA support for more ops (see our [[http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ToDo|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, [[http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/SummerOfCode|DRI ideas list]].