Ideas Page

Introduction

This is our ideas page for new developers.

Organization

You can find the organizers at our forum: http://board.kolibrios.org/

Name	Nickname	Role
Ivan Baravy	dunkaist	Administrator, Mentor
Dmitriy Smirnov	Pathoswithin	Mentor, (Administrator)
Serhii Sakhno	Punk_Joker	Mentor
Kiril Lipatov	Leency	C-- Mentor
Konstantin Pakhtusov	KPG	Mentor (Forth)

Ideas

Sortable list of ideas for easy navigation

Idea Name	Area	Programming Language	Mentors
OpenBios in Loader	Kernel/Application	Forth, FASM (Assembler), C	KPG
File system	Kernel/Application	FASM (Assembler)	Pathoswithin
Widget toolkit	System wide	FASM (Assembler), C	dunkaist
Port Mbed TLS	Library	C/FASM	Punk_Joker
Port FLTK	Library	C++	Punk_Joker
Fasmg port	Application	FASM/FASMG (Assembler)	dunkaist
Unicode library	Library/Application	FASM (Assembler)	dunkaist
Virt-IO driver	Kernel	FASM (Assembler)	dunkaist
Loop device driver	Kernel	FASM (Assembler)	dunkaist
RSS/Atom news reader	Application	FASM (Assembler)	dunkaist
Port SDL2
Add forms to WebView
J2ME Emulator
Screen Ruler			} OpenBios in Loader OpenBIOS is a free, portable implementation of IEEE 1275-1994 (Open Firmware). Find detailed information about OpenBIOS OpenBIOS can replace your system firmware (BIOS) partly or completely. It can also be used as a bootloader to create an Open Firmware compatible interface between legacy firmware and an operating system. This is achieved by a modular concept that consists of a portable Forth kernel and three interfaces for user interaction, device initialization and client (operating system) control in command line like shell in Linux. OpenBios implentation Fcode [1] - Bytecode is small, hardware independent and efficient. And an evaluator (bytecode virtual machine) is almost trivial to implement or/and with possible an uses JIT technology. Primary goal: Add OpenBios ("Forth") support to the system bootloader. Additional goal: Create simple interactive more device drivers Language: Forth, FASM (Assembler), C Links: Openbios Firmware in Github File system Primary goal: Add write support for ext4 file system (ext4 reading and ext2 writing are already supported). Additional goal: Improve write support for NTFS file system. Language: FASM (Assembler) Links: Ext4 Disk Layout Widget toolkit Primary goal: Extend Box_lib (a set of separate widgets) to create a full-featured widget toolkit, design architecture and implement focus handling, callbacks and other core ideas. Additional goal: Integrate created box_lib widgets to the C-framework, extend framework with font handling, layout manager Language: FASM (Assembler), C (framework) Links: basic idea, list of toolkits Finish Mbed TLS port Primary goal: Finish MbedTLS port (headers for FASM, get ceritificates working) (TODOs) Additional goal: Update HTTP library (written in FASM) to support HTTPS by using mbedtls.obj Language: C/FASM Links: MbedTLS port thread Port FLTK Primary goal: Make a working port of FLTK (widget library) and add it to the automatic build-system. Additional goal: port Scintilla (minimum working version) Language: C++ Links: Official site Language: C--, Assembler/FASM Fasmg port Tomasz Grysztar (creator of FASM) introduced FASMG, a new assembler engine. It would be nice to support its new syntax in KolibriOS. Primary goal: Write FASMG application like FASM one. Port standard KolibriOS macros to FASMG syntax. Additional goal: Implement macros for compatibility with FASM. Language: Assembler/FASM/FASMG Links: FASMG overview, FASMG manual Unicode library Unicode is a huge and sophisticated standard. Nevertheless modern OS should provide libraries with Unicode related routines like NFC, NFD, sorting, comparing, etc. Primary goal: Write a tiny Unicode library with core Unicode algorithms and example application. Additional goal: Upgrade existing applications to use the new library. Language: Assembler/FASM Links: libutf Virt-IO driver Virtio is a virtualization standard for network and disk device drivers where just the guest's device driver "knows" it is running in a virtual environment, and cooperates with the hypervisor. This enables guests to get high performance network and disk operations, and gives most of the performance benefits of paravirtualization. Primary goal: Write kernel driver for, say, virt-io Ethernet card. Additional goal: Write more drivers. Language: Assembler/FASM Links: Virt-IO wiki Loop device driver Primary goal: Write loop device driver and example application to manage loop devices. Additional goal: Prepare a set of disk images to be used in filesystem unit tests. Language: Assembler/FASM Links: loop device overview RSS/Atom news reader RSS and Atom are standards for web feeds. They are XML based and easily processed via AsmXml library. Corresponding user application would be a big plus to usability of KolibriOS. Primary goal: Write RSS news reader as a standalone KolibriOS application. Additional goal: Add Atom support to the app. Language: Assembler/FASM Links: AsmXml library, RSS, Atom Port SDL2 SDL1.2 is already ported to KolibriOS, but there is no SDL2 port. Primary goal: Make a working port of SDL2. Additional goal: Port additional SDL2 libraries: SDL2_image, SDL2_mixer, SDL2_ttf, etc. Language: C Links: libsdl.org Add forms to WebView Currently WebView browser doesn't support support html forms (<form>, <input>, etc.) Primary goal: Add support for <form>, <input> for types that was prior to HTML5 Additional goal: Add input types that was introduced in HTML5 Language: C-- Links: WebView on svn J2ME Emulator Thousands of games and programs have been created for the j2me platform. It would be cool to be able to run them in KolibriOS. Primary goal: Port JVM and java.microedition.* runtime Additional goal: Make it run most of popular j2me games Language: C, Java Links: miniJVM Screen Ruler Program for conveniently measuring the distance between selected points on the screen. Primary goal: measure distance by X, Y, diagonal. Additional goal: Also with a built-in magnifier and aim to see which pixel you choose. Language: FASM Links: for additional goal it would be useful to see: sources of Magnify Most importantly... Have Fun!