Bytes, Gnomes & Chozo

Week #1 I started my work on Boxes on June's 2nd. This first week served as a transition from my examinaton period to the GSoC. I had some unfinished work from my application period: two bugs to solve. The first one was #726252 - Refactor topbar's children into separate classes/modules The patches were pretty much finished but they were not perfect, all they required was some love. It took me time to transition my mind from the student mindset to a more engineering one, but hopefully, the patches were accepted at the end of the week. The second one was #692383 - Allow editing of box name in the tite Just as for the first bug, I had patches ready but not perfect, and they were dependent on work done for the first bug. As it took me time to correct the patches for the first bug, I let this one aside. My project is to add multi-monitor support to Boxes, so I also took time to read Boxes' code, especially the App, AppWindow, Display and Machine classes as they ...

It's all about taking and giving back Some years ago, I discovered the principles of free software while becoming a happy GNU/Linux user (Ubuntu at this time). These principles have changed my vision of the world: I wanted to be part of this movement, I wanted to give back to the projects that gave me so much. This is how I stopped being a laborer and became a computer science student, and I feel that I have enough knowledge to give something back. The Google Summer of Code I am very happy to say that I have been accepted to the 2014 edition of the Google Summer of Code! Applying to this GSOC have been a stressful but already very enriching experience, the coding session haven't started yet but I already learned a lot! I am sure it will be a great experience and that I will learn a lot on software engineering. I decided to apply for GNOME because I simply love this desktop environment, from the experience I have using it to its software libraries. This summer, my...

Welcome to my blog. I am Adrien Plazas, actually studying computer science in Montpellier, France. Here I'll write about my studies, the GNOME desktop environment and video game preservation. I hope you'll enjoy it! =)