Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: layer commands we need
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:51:27PM -0400, bulia byak wrote:
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:35:46 -0800, Bryce Harrington
<bryce@...260...> wrote:
> > This seems to have stalled pending the Gtkmm conversion. Bryce &
> > Jizzbug, what are your current plans on this? E.g. I have in mind a
> > feature which I'm holding back because it will require a new dialog,
> > and I don't want to start a new dialog before the conversion. When is
> > the next step after putting the Gtkmm code into the tree?
>
> Refer to the status I wrote to your question on it last week in Jabber
> (you never responded, so perhaps you missed it). I was at Connectathon
> for the past week working exclusively on NFSv4. I had hoped to work on
> it in the evenings, but I could not get Inkscape to build on SuSE 9.2
> (dependency problems). I won't have as much time this weekend as I
> thought (I have to find my cat that ran off).
Thanks for the update. I really hope there will be some progress,
because otherwise, we now have enough stuff to start thinking about a
0.42.
The 0.41 release used up a lot of my time; I had to postpone work on
gtkmm stuff for about a month. Making a 0.42 release would similarly
stop progress on gtkmm for a long period. I don't think that's the
right way to go. The gtkmm stuff has been bumped for several releases
already; it would be a shame to do that again, when we clearly have
plenty of energy going into development. We just need to get a bit more
of it diverted into gtkmm.
> Anyway, I'm
> definitely still working on it, but there's a heck of a lot of coding to
> do, and I only have a moderate amount of time to put into it, so if
> people are waiting for 100% of the gtkmm conversion to be done before
> they do any gui work themselves, things are going to get massively
> logjammed here pretty soon.
Maybe you can write up some simple well-defined subtasks for people to
try? This seems to have worked with SPRepr cleanups.
Sure, how should this be done? I have a very detailed task list for
this, that I keep updated, and have placed a lot of TODO's in the code
itself. I'd love to know what could be done to get more people working
on the code.
Bryce