bulia byak wrote:
On 8/24/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> wrote:
Please restore mention of gtkmm. You may not put any value into it or people working on it, but some of us do. It is not on hold, and it is a major change that affects developers and users.
Bryce, you seem to be oversensitive to this. I don't think I'm doing anything that could be described like this. You seem to be reading too much into my words, again :(
As for the front page, I'm strongly of the opinion that the second paragraph on the project front page is a wrong place for mentioning the language and/or the toolkit of the program (a user-oriented program, not a development tool). Especially when it mentions conversion between two scary sounding language/toolkit pairs, adding to the confusion. For most users this is just a meaningless alphabet soup.
Any other opinions?
I personally think that given the nature of OSS, it does tend to make sense to mention the toolkits/languages involved. BUT, in looking at a couple other big OSS projects, namely GAIM & GIMP, they don't mention that stuff on the front page... and if GIMP especially (the "mother" of gtk) doesn't say what it uses on the front page, do we really need to? I think we should have a link to a page all about the transition from C to C++ and gtk to gtkmm though. I personally put a lot of value in it (and I really think Bulia does too), but I don't know that anything other than a link to a "transition status" page is appropriate for the homepage. In the end, gtkmm will make all of our lives easier, and we all value it... but it's just a different priority for different people (high priority to me, but I'm still useless at converting the existing stuff... but I can whip up a "Hello World" for ya though ;)).
To sum it up, a link to a transition status page is my solution... Just my .02
Oh, and just FYI for everyone, I'm preparing the "literature" to post this evening to start the website redesign (head, footer, and maybe other CSS) contest...
-Josh