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This is a page where you can propose an idea that you think deserves a bounty. This is not a general wishlist, nor is it a place for brainstorming. If you have spectacular new and innovative idea, please add it to the IdeaPool instead.

Please leave your contact information if you are willing to sponsor the bounty.

Please keep to bounty proposals short and clear, or make a new page for the proposal, if you want to add a great number of details.

Bounty proposals

Please add your ideas for bounties here.

• Make a flyer that everybody can print and put up at school or at there windows working place to support windows user to use Ubuntu.

• Develop a Gnome program which allows the easy creation of CD/DVD covers/inlets: willing to sponsor $200 - m.dewes@onlinehome.de see ["CoverCreatorBounty"]

• Having gaim use or at least automatically update buddies from and to evolution's contacts.

• Gstreamer MIDI playback: willing to sponsor $ 100 - mark@markvdb.be

• Parental control based on dansguardian.org: willing to sponsor $ 100 - eric.duveau@gmail.com

• The instant messanger application should be able to use a webcam like MSN (Help gaim-vv, gaim). - KentNyberg

  • See the Farsight Project, this is making rapid progress on this point. http://farsight.sourceforge.net --RobTaylor

  • This will be integrated in http://gaim.sourceforge.net/index.php?id=162 gaim 2.0 --ghee22

• Complete several works on rhythmbox (http://www.rhythmbox.org/): Audio-CD support; Icecast (SQL) support; add Equalizer (gstreamer?); add Playlist (bounty already exist) and PartySuffle; Add MusicShare fuction; integrate MusicStore (PyMusic,SharpMusique?); IDTag support (MP3,Ogg,Flac,MP4,Ape); Log/Statistic support, More Automatic Playlists (timebased,most played) -- Reviczky Ádám János |-> add a function to minimize in system tray when clicking on close button.

• Add LaTeX and Handwrite support for gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/) and/or gossip (http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gossip/) -- Reviczky Ádám János

  • for gaim and LaTeX it exists a small plugin (not perfect, I write it, I know that), (now, >= v0.3) compatible with KopeteTeX (here : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim-latex/ ) -- Nicolas Schoonbroodt

• Make a Nautilus extension for matroska: view attachements, chapters, comments, etc. (http://www.matroska.org/), bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426083 -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Add autorotate function for sane/xsane scanner interface (http://www.sane-project.org/), BUG: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=304241&group_id=30186&atid=410366 or in the new gnomescan (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-scan/) -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Make negative scanning work with correct color calibration in xsane -- Patrick G

• Write a GTK-Formula program like KFormula with LaTeX, MathML, etc. support (Abiword will support a FormulaEditor, but this must be a separate program!) and export features in various formats (textsource:LaTeX,MathML;image:PNG,GIF) -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Add PDF version 1.7 support for poppler/xpdf and some PDF editing support for evince (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/) -- Reviczky Ádám János

  • Evince is strictly a document viewer. Editing should be in the hands of OpenOffice.org, Inkscape and similar programs. --Schalken

• Write a LaTeX Control Center with easy GUI support for: Font installation for LaTeX (TTF); more general preferences (Character Encoding,usepackage,papersize); integrate amyedit LaTeX editor (http://amyedit.sourceforge.net/); integrate evince PDF viewer/editor; Templates and sample LaTeX documents: Newspaper, Book, Article,... -- Reviczky Ádám János

  • Evince is integrated as of Dapper -- Schalken
  • I mean integrate it into the LaTeX Control Center -- Reviczky Ádám János
• Add native SVG support for PDFLaTeX -- Reviczky Ádám János
• Add PDF saving support for GIMP -- Reviczky Ádám János

  • GIMP is a raster graphic editor. PDF export should be in the hands of OpenOffice.org (which it is), Inkscape and similar programs. --Schalken

  • I thinked something about saving scanned pictures to PDF (like http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/) for gimp.

• Add Descendant View and organizing via Descendants on the Main Interface for gramps (http://www.gramps-project.org/), bug: http://bugs.gramps-project.org/view.php?id=898 -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Add Photolist export function for gthumb (bugzilla:http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168077) -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Add animation support for rsvg (http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/) -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Add RealAudio 40, RealVideo 40 support for ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/) -- Reviczky Ádám János

  • maybe part of Summer Of Code 2007: http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Summer_Of_Code_2007#RV40_Decoder

• Complete editing support for criawips presentations (http://www.nongnu.org/criawips/) -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Add several functions for gnumeric: multiple split view, make thousand and comma separator character for numbers userdefined (bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407563), new UI (maybe rippons like MS-Office 2007)... (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/) -- Reviczky Ádám János

• complete work on libgoffice and make so integrating features in Abiword/Gnumeric etc. -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Add Sidepane support for TextStyles in Abiword (http://www.abisource.com/), bug: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10936 -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Really much thing for more Jabber support in gaim -- Reviczky Ádám János

  • Jabber is http://gaim.sourceforge.net/protocol.php#jabber already supported in Gaim --ghee22

  • well, it is supported, but its functionality is very limited, maybe telepathy support will help here -- Reviczky Ádám János
• Add General TV-Out Properties for Gnome Control Center -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Add matroska support for Thoggen (http://thoggen.sourceforge.net/), bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1693964&group_id=124800&atid=700640 -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Complete work on gnomepedia -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Fix mozilla xml+javascript bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111514 -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Add unicode support (UTF-8) for Midnight Commander (http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/) -- Reviczky Ádám János

  • UTF-8 support is nearly complete with patches -- Reviczky Ádám János

• Porting SubRip to linux (using kylix): http://zuggy.wz.cz/ -- Reviczky Ádám János

• intergration of linux-wlan-ng (driver for prism based wireless cards (lots of cheap usb ones)) into the standard network tools, so that they can be configured using the gnome-network-admin.

• feature or extension for [http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ Thunderbird] allowing attached images to be shrinked and constrained in file size before sending them along with mails. The solution will use existing libraries to provide a dialog to adjust the preferred file size for images. -- Philipp Sadleder philipp@sadleder.de

• Integration of an audio multi-band equalizer instead of the single band one in order to let users regulate sound for all applications. -- Tenshu at gmail dot com
• Insert backslash before each space in a filename, when sliding a file icon to a terminal -- glathoud at yahoo dot fr

• A browser that blocks loading of images selectively by file extension OR including an option in the preferences menu which allows to block flash player files (.swf) from loading. Background: disabling the "Load images" feature only works for .jpg and .gif files but not for .swf files (.swf ad banners are the most annoying ones nowadays and furthermore seem to cause performance problems on older machines). Such a feature could be a relief for users who wish to selectively block annoying .swf ad banners but still want to be able to view pages which include .swf where this is appreciated. Kpr2 ( reiffk at arcor dot de )

• Welcome screen, like in Windows, where you click on your username, which has a personal picture by it, and then type in your password and press enter. Alec Wright (alecjw {[{</AT{}[][{ gmail \/{#dot}[ com

  • I know GDM can use a "face browser" which automatically fills in username, then asks for password. This depends on the theme (I found [http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.14/overview.html this], see section 2.9) and there have been suggestions for making Ubuntu include, or even use by default, a theme supporting this.

• Removable drive synchronization. See: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unison-users/message/4376

• Beagle should use OCR to index scanned documents.
• An application, similar to xcompmgr, which can apply OpenGL transformations/effects to windows no matter what window manager is used (making some of the 3D effects of Compiz independant).

Mozilla Bounties

We (http://p4u.ch) are willing to sponsor

• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270927 - allow to specify (secure) default smtp/pop per contact: USD 200

• http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263761 - have the mail program scan encrypted mails upon decryption for viruses, etc.: USD 250

Links

• http://www.ubuntulinux.org/community/bounties

• AcademicInvolvement

From DaveBotkin Sun Jun 12 08:20:39 +0100 2005 From: Dave Botkin Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 08:20:39 +0100 Subject: Orphaned but still usable hardware Message-ID: <20050612082039+0100@www.ubuntulinux.org>

Any chance of a port to m68k (pre-PPC Macintosh)?

• Warbo: I think M68K chips cannot go much higher than around 100MHz (unless you count Coldfire...), making most UNIX OSs unusable from a graphical perspective, and for a text-based server system there is not much difference between Ubuntu and Debian (please don't reply with a list of differences, since it is clear that Ubuntu's real innovation lies in graphical tools such as Alacarte and Ubiquity)