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Rapps Enhancement final report - GSoC 2020

Hi, I’m He Yang (@kernel.bin), one of the GSoC-2020 students of ReactOS. How time flies, three months have passed and now GSoC is coming to an end. During the last three months, I’ve been working on rapps, and I’ve made some small progress on it: improving rapps by increasing it’s functionality, stability, and make the code more well-organized. During GSoC, I’ve acquired a lot of coding skills and knowledge about Win32.

Rapps Enhancement stage 1 & 2 - GSoC 2020

Hi, I’m He Yang (@kernel.bin), one of the GSoC-2020 students of ReactOS. Two months have passed since GSoC started, and during these two months, I’ve made some progress on ReactOS Application Manager (RAPPS), the project I’m working on. In this blog, I will list out what I’ve accomplished in these two months, and what I’m planning to do in the next month. The work I’ve done in Stage 1&2 Stage 1 During stage 1, I mainly focused on screenshot and icon support and various small improvements.

Rapps Enhancement - GSoC 2020

Hello, I am He Yang (@kernel.bin) from China. This year, I signed up for GSoC, and I’m very glad to be given the chance to work with the ReactOS team. My mentors for the project are Mark Jansen and Ioannis Adamopoulos. It’s a great honor to have two mentors to guide me. My project is “Application manager RAPPS”. RAPPS is used by almost everyone using ReactOS, thus making it essential to get RAPPS easy-to-use, powerful and bug-free.

GSoC 2019 - RAPPS

Introduction Hello everyone, This is Akshay Patil, 3rd-year B.E CS student from VIIT Pune, lately working on RAPPS. The Google Summer of code, abbreviated as GSoC is an annual program in which Google pairs University Students to work with open source organizations and then awards stipends to students who are able to meet project milestones. This Summer I am working with ReactOS to improve RAPPS. ReactOS is a free and open-sourced operating system based on the Windows NT architecture, providing support for existing applications and drivers, and an alternative to the current dominant consumer operating system.

ReactOS 0.4.7 released!

The ReactOS Project is pleased to announce the release of version 0.4.7 as we continue to work on releasing every three months. We’re especially pleased to present this release as the very first one that’s been developed in our new Git/GitHub repository. Moving from Subversion to GitHub has proven to be an invaluable way to reach new testers, users and improve the overall awareness of the ReactOS project. To highlight the impact we’ve had since we moved to GitHub two months ago, ReactOS now leads the Win32Api and OsDev categories in Github, overtaking many amazing and well established projects.

RAPPS Enchancements: GSoC 2017 Edition Final Report

Introduction ReactOS App Manager (RAPPS) is an app used in ReactOS to download apps, tested by ReactOS team and community. It also manages apps that are installed - you can view apps that are present on your system and uninstall them. The goal of this project was to improve RAPPS and add some very useful features. Here is a video presenting it's features: Quick Links SVN branch link Unified diff as a Gist Commits Overview Table of contents Introduction Building Testing Changes made during development Application List Improvements Bulk installing Script installation Other improvements Future work Conclusions Building Building RAPPS is no different as building parts of ReactOS.

RAPPS Enchancements: GSoC 2017 Edition Volume 5

It's very good when things go as planned. And they do! The BULK INSTALL is here! Let's have a look. Checkboxes are useful Now you can select a bunch of apps in the app bar. In the statusbar you can see selected app count. Selection drops when the categories are switched.  Using "Select/Deselect button" will select all apps in the current view.  Install all apps at once Pressing "

RAPPS Enchancements: GSoC 2017 Edition Volume 3 and 4

Whoosh! Two weeks flew by in no time! Fortunately, I've done many things and have some screenshots to show! Before we start, I have an anouncement: I'm going to Hackfest and FroSCon this August! I may not be very useful there, but I can discuss things related to the project, meet my mentor Mark Jansen and other devs. I will also learn from the ReactOS developers and FrOSCon workshops.  

RAPPS Enchancements: GSoC 2017 Edition Volume 2.1

You may wonder why this post is not labeled "Volume 3". Well, thanks to the training week of the military dept. of our university this week wasn't very productive in terms of features. Nevertheless, this short post is here to keep you updated. This week I was working on refactoring the code and improving code. This will help me progress faster and addd new feature more easily. It is not the only reason: RAPPS was initially written in C and had been converted to C++.

RAPPS Enchancements: GSoC 2017 Edition Volume 2

Another week - another update! This time I worked on the license info, update checking and other improvements to my work. These changes bring up many under-the-hood changes. Dont worry, these changes may not look huge. I'm adding features and then worry about the visuals :)  But first things first. Let's have a look. Before After   Update check RAPPS can now suggest and update if the version installed is less than in the database.