Yes, I have contributed to GNOME.
It is about presentations with multiple monitors (multihead, dualscreen). One monitor holds the presentation, the other shows a control window with overview on the left (current, next slides) and a large view for the current slide, or the notes on the right.
A screenshot.
Same in XL.
So far only a reorganizing patch is committed. I have hope though that it will be included in a future release.
You can get the patch from the bug and compile it into a evince release (not too hard and worth it in my opinion).
Also we have bad quality videos:
- Previous version
- Good working version, shows a usable notes file: evince multihead presentations (ogg, 3,022 KB)
So far for the technical part.
To say the least, it is sooooo awesome to work in open source. Nice people everywhere, you can get help easily (you have and should have to work and learn things on your own though). Getting to know the inner works of these projects is a very good experience. I expect Google Summer of Code to be quite similar to the nice help and mentoring I enjoyed by nsh, KaL, jrb and others.
Also I can’t describe to you the feeling that maybe, in 2 years, your software will be delivered to a million users. So awesome.
Some Mac users will of course say this is all stolen from KeyNote. One could say: Um, having a different content on 2 screens is not particularly new (Xinerama). Having one as control for the other is not that far away. Also, the window content is really different.
But I would say … who cares about Mac users anyway :-P
Btw: If you wonder why I do not have a clock in the window … GNOME already has one. The window is maximized, not fullscreen to allow starting of applications you may want to show during presentations. The patch also works for more than 2 monitors.
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