https://www.hjdskes.nl/series/google-summer-of-code/ Recent content in Google Summer of Code on Jente Hidskes' website Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Copyright © 2016-2022 Jente Hidskes Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:19:04 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-15/ Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:19:04 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-15/ This is the last entry in the Google Summer of Code series that I have been writing weekly for the last three months. It is different from the usual updates in that I won’t be discussing development progress: rather, this will be the submission report for the project as a whole. I’ll be discussing the why? behind the project, the plan that my mentor and I came up with to execute the project, the work I have done over the summer including a video of the result, the things that are left to work on, what I’ve learned during the project and finally, the links to the code that I have written for the actual submission. https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-14/ Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:01:32 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-14/ Well, this really is the last week of my Summer of Code! This will be a short update on the final changes made since my last update on Friday, which will be followed by a proper blog post for my final submission later this week. Last week I mentioned a few items that were work-in-progress. The search field for the button mapping dialog has been merged, including its revamp of the dialog’s UI. https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-13/ Fri, 18 Aug 2017 19:47:27 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-13/ This week I have been solving more issues to make sure that Piper offers a pleasent user experience, doesn’t crash and runs smoothly. My mentor and cvuchener from the libratbag project have been testing Piper the last week, and together with a handful of users attracted to Piper they have opened a bunch of issues for me to solve. Let’s run through the most visible ones! Solving global warming Probably the most fun issue to resolve this week was the one reported by my mentor: Piper contributes to global warming (you won’t believe what happened next! https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-12/ Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:35:37 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-12/ Last week I shared the news that all large features had been implemented; all that was left were issues raised by GNOME contributors when my mentor demoed my progress over GUADEC. This week I’ve just been chugging away on those issues; let me show you. Obvious save button is.. not obvious? Hadess noted that the save button wasn’t obvious when my mentor demoed Piper to him; I already mentioned this last week: the icon is a save to diskicon and it’s not obvious at first glance that you have to press it to write the changes you made to the device. https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-11/ Fri, 04 Aug 2017 15:06:40 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-11/ When I proposed the project with my mentor, we worked out a bunch of features that the new Piper should have. These are listed in the Redesign Wiki, but here’s a high-level summary: A welcome screen, presenting a list of connected and supported devices. An error screen, presenting any problems in a user-friendly manner. The main screen, presenting the configuration pages: A page to configure resolutions (see part 7) A page to configure button mappings (see parts 9 and 10) A page to configure LEDs (see part 8) Support for device profiles (see part 9 for the start on this). https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-10/ Fri, 28 Jul 2017 15:10:26 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-10/ I can start this blog post by sharing the news that I have passed for my second evaluation! This means that I’m now on the last sprint towards the finish line, with ahead of me profile support and the welcome screen. Yes; you’ve read that correctly: I didn’t mention the button page. I managed to fix that this week and it’s now pending review and some final issues (more about that below). https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-9/ Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:35:55 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-9/ When I discussed this project with my mentor before GSoC, he told me that the button mappings were going to be the most complicated piece. This week I’ve been working on precisely that and, well, let’s just say he wasn’t wrong 😉 If you’ve been following along on GitHub, you’re probably thinking that it was a slow week. Indeed, there hasn’t been that much activity this week as in previous weeks. https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-8/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 10:03:55 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-8/ Originally the plan for this week was to start working on the button mappings, however together with my mentor I decided that it’s better to do the LEDs first. This is because I was sure I could finish this in a few days, and button mappings is definitely going to take much longer than that. So, this week I’ll run you through the implementation of the LED stack page, and the coming weeks I’ll be working on button mappings, profile support and a proper welcome screen, in that order. https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-7/ Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:58:33 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-7/ This week was a good week with loads of progress. I’ll just go through each item one by one, as usual. MouseMap merged Last Friday I opened the pull request to merge the MouseMap widget. After a bit of a discussion around preferences, my mentor and I decided to merge ongoing work in a rewrite branch. This keeps the master branch functional (while still receiving improvements, such as adding new functionality to the ratbagd bindings or a Gtk. https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-6/ Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:11:24 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-6/ This week Piper saw some progress again! Today I opened the pull request for the MouseMap that I’ve been working on for the past two and a half weeks now. I’ll discuss the changes made since the last blog later; first, I want to highlight the other work I did the past week. A major milestone this week is the merging of ratbagd and libratbag. While Piper shouldn’t notice any of this (it talks to ratbagd over DBus), it’s still a highlight I want to mention. https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-5/ Fri, 23 Jun 2017 16:52:20 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-5/ As mentioned in my previous blog, the X.Org Foundation now wants us to blog every week. Whilst that means shorter blogs (last week’s was a tad long), it also means that there isn’t much to blog about if I didn’t do much in a week. Such is the case for this week, sadly. It’s the last week of university, and so there are a few assignment deadlines that I needed to complete; I haven’t been able to invest as much time into my project as I would have wanted. https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-4/ Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:47:56 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-4/ This is going to be a long one, so grab a drink and a snack and buckle up! Incidentally, the X.Org foundation has asked us, the 2017 GSoC students, to blog weekly so from now on I will do so; which will also mean smaller blogs in the future. I made a schedule to go with my proposal in which I divided the coding period into two week sprints to plan out my project. https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-3/ Sat, 03 Jun 2017 17:53:27 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-3/ This will be a quick blog post on the previous two weeks. During this time, the community bonding period ended and the coding phase officially begun! I spent most of the first week working on university projects, so that those are as done as they can be at this point and I have little else to work on besides Piper. On the second week, I thought I would get a few days head start on my schedule by starting early on the mockups. https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-2/ Fri, 19 May 2017 16:01:04 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-2/ Two weeks have now passed since my introductory blog post, so as promised here is part two! The theme of this blog post is probably something along the lines of preparation, as that is what I’ve been doing mostly. The period between that of announcing the accepted student proposals and phase one is called the community bonding period. In this period students are supposed to get to know their mentors, their organizations, familiarize themselves with their projects (even more) and get everything ready to start off the coding period on May 30th. https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-1/ Fri, 05 May 2017 15:44:04 +0200 https://www.hjdskes.nl/blog/gsoc-part-1/ Yesterday, after waiting for what felt like a very long time, I finally got the results of my Google Summer of Code (GSoC) application! I can happily say that one of my proposals has been accepted: I will work with Peter Hutterer to redesign and rewrite Piper. The synopsis of my proposal is as follows: Piper is an application frontend to libratbag and ratbagd, a library and system daemon to configure gaming mice respectively.