On 11/2/07, Andre Twupack <atwupack@...1081...> wrote:
During the last two years I have provided a few minor patches but now I would like to become more involved in the development of Inkscape. Therefore I'm posting here to find one of the members of the development team who needs some help or can assign me a task.
As I'm especially interested in GUI design/development, I could perhaps help with the migration of Inkscape to gtkmm. Maybe one of the developers already working on this could contact me with some information about what still needs to be done and how I can help.
Welcome! I think if you are interested in UI and GTKmm, an excellent first task would be to convert the remaining gtk dialogs to gtkmm. We have migrated some of them but not all yet. Up to now this task was not so urgent, because there was little difference between old and new dialogs for the user, but now that the gtkmm dialogs are dockable and others are not, it's going to be very annoying. Examples of old dialogs that need conversion: Find, Object properties, Tile clones; examples of new dockable ones: Fill&Stroke, Layers, History. This is not very difficult - you don't need to thoroughly rework the dialogs, just wrap them in the new Dialog class. For details, ask Gustav Broberg who's the author of the dockability patch and he also was the last person so far to convert a dialog (fill&stroke) to the new style.