Global memory analysis tool

Global memory analysis tool. A tool that lets you look at the memory usage of all running GNOME programs and help account for where the memory is going. Must properly account for sharing of memory between processes.

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Michael Langford, a research scientist in computing at Georgia Tech Research Institute, has taken on this project. Good luck, Michael!

Create a test suite for browsing in Nautilus

A test case is needed for Nautilus doing a long session of browsing. This test case can be used to detect leaks, using tools such as valgrind. The test case should use the LDTP project. It should do the following:

• Put Nautilus in the root directory (/)
• Spider around across different folders
• Use various views (browser, spatial, as icons, as a list)
• Be able to account for the fact that under valgrind, things will not happen fast (so it must wait)

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Add image data to the icon cache

For the GTK 2.6 release, a memory mappable icon cache was developed. This allows us to avoid scanning lots of directories on the startup of every application. However, one thing it does not do is to store the actual icon data in a shared file. This means that common images (consider the “x” on a close button) are duplicated many times.

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Drag and Drop between Gnome and Firefox

Currently dragging and dropping back and forth between nautilus and firefox is very problematic. Bookmarks and copying actions are easily confused with surprising results.

What we’d like to see: Dragging a bookmark .desktop file to Firefox should open the url the bookmark file contains, not the bookmark file itself. Dragging an http: uri from firefox to the desktop should ask you if you prefer to download the file or make a bookmark point to the location. If a desktop bookmark is created the resulting .desktop file should specify a hyperlink icon (or possibly use the shortcut icon if the link points to an html page).

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Language selection in composer

Add a pop-up menu to the composer toolbar for selecting the language. This would affect the default spell-checking dictionary, the “On DATE, PERSON said:” attribution, the Content-Language header, and various other things.

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Templates for new messages and replies

We would like to allow people to prepare their own message templates. The templates will be stored in a Templates folder and may contain patterns which will be substituted when the template is used.

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Publish your calendar

Apple’s iCal has made “calendar sharing” popular. It’s a nice feature where any user can create a calendar of events and then publish it on a website, to share it with other users. Others can then “subscribe” their calendar application to that calendar file, and updates are automatically synced to their imported calendar whenever the master file changes. This makes it easy and convenient to share conference schedules, meeting times, club events, moving dates and times and so on.

Implement this calendar publishing feature in Evolution.

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Outlook-Evolution dictionary

To help people switching from Outlook to Evolution, assemble a list of equivalent tasks for mail, calendar, and addressbook functionality, for the Evolution user’s guide. Ask yourself this question: “In Outlook, I did something by clicking here or selecting there. In Evolution, what do I do?”

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Advanced LDAP Configuration

Evolution can store contacts in an LDAP directory, but there is no way to tell Evolution exactly where in the directory contact data should be stored.

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Bugzilla tasks backend

Evolution and the GNOME project as a whole both use Bugzilla to track bugs. Since Evolution is used by many GNOME developers, it would be useful to have some degree of integration with Bugzilla.

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