[CONTENT] GSoC 2020 RAPPS Stage 1 & 2 (#74)

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+title:       "Rapps Enhancement stage 1 & 2 - GSoC 2020"
+author:      "kernel.bin"
+date:        2020-08-08
+tags:        [ "gsoc", "gsoc-2020", "rapps" ]
+banner:      "/img/blogs/gsoc2020-rapps-stage1&2.png"
+---
+
+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.
+
+#### work done:
+- Add support for screenshots. One can specify URLs to screenshot images in rapps-db .txt file. It will be displayed at the left side of the rich-edit, automatically sized. when downloading / download failed, a placeholder will be displayed. (Currently, only the first image will be displayed).
+
+- Improve icon support. Now icon can be specified in rapps-db .txt file too. (the original design had problems if some special char exists in the software name)
+
+- Some other invisible improvements (Introducing AsyncInet, path-handling improvement, and so on) and some refactoring.
+
+### Stage 2
+
+During stage 2, I mainly focus on improving listview and related code. This turned out the be a pretty big refactor, and it improved the UI a bit.
+
+#### work done:
+- Move ToolBar and SearchBar to AppView, and remove "settings" and "exit" button.
+
+- Add a ComboBox in ToolBar, enabling users to choose how to view apps. (Supports details mode and list mode. Tile mode is only supported on Windows)
+
+- Some small bugfix and improvements. (Correctly handle Select All / Deselect All and Column-Click. Handle double-click and RightClick->Install in listview more reasonably and so on)
+
+- Some other invisible improvements and some refactoring. (Make code around listview, class CAvailableApps, CInstalledApps more clear，handle WOW64 registry correctly)
+
+**screenshots**
+![RAPPS screenshot](/img/blogs/gsoc2020-rapps-stage1&2.png)
+
+## Short-term Plan
+
+Listed below is the work I'm planning to do next.
+
+- refactor download dialog box and code about downloading. Support concurrent download, reuse the code from (```AsyncInet.cpp```) if possible.
+
+- fix bugs about downloading. (e.g. if download dialog is closed, rapps crashed.)
+
+- command-line support improvements.
+
+
+Please look forward to my work on RAPPS!
+If you have any interesting/exciting ideas, feel free to tell me!