On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 10:30:01PM -0400, bulia byak wrote:
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 18:18:58 -0800, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> wrote:
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.
Sure, I'm not saying we should postpone it again. I'm just saying that if/when we get gtkmm done, we also have enough other stuff to justify the release.
Okay, gotcha. I'm actually really glad to see the work you did with eliminating the need for the gradient editing in the fill&stroke dialog, because I was really not looking forward to gtkmmifying that code!
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.
I think just write them up on Wiki and send a call for help to the list. And keep reminding about it until something starts rolling.
Okay, although I've put out a few calls for help previously. Maybe I was not direct enough though... I'll give it a shot again once I've got the integration a little further along.
While we're on the topic - there's one area of the gtkmm work that I need your help - the Statusbar needs to be converted to Gtkmm. There has not been any work done on this yet, but I think it is important to do soonish since a lot of the other parts of the interface will be calling its code. If I pointed you at where this code fits in, would you be comfortable taking charge of doing this implementation? The current Gtk+ statusbar code is fairly good so I think this should be a straightforward conversion.
Bryce